Tâche 3 — Expression d'un point de vue

Two and a half minutes to take a position and hold it

The last tâche gives you a short document and no time to think about it. You speak alone, without interruption, and everything the examiner marks — structure, range, precision — has to appear in a hundred and fifty seconds.

Practise tâche 3 Browse the themes 3 free writing + 3 free speaking corrections

Speaking time: 2 min 30
Preparation: 0 s
Order in the sitting: 3 / 3
Position to defend: 1

A monologue with a shape

You are given a short text or a statement — a social question, a habit, a trend — and asked what you think. The examiner does not interrupt. Two and a half minutes is long enough that an unstructured answer visibly runs out of things to say at ninety seconds.

The mark is not for having the right opinion; there is no right opinion. It is for the range of language you deploy, the accuracy you keep under pressure, and whether those two and a half minutes have a beginning, a middle and an end.

No preparation: the document, and then you are speaking.
Two and a half minutes uninterrupted, alone.
One position, argued — not a survey of what people think.

On the clock

02:30

PreparationNone

Speaking02:30

The examiner starts the clock and does not stop it. Running short costs you as much as running over.

Against the other tâches

02:00

05:30

02:30

What the evaluation gives you

Speaking is the section candidates practise least, because practising it alone usually means talking to nobody.

Recorded against the real clock

The preparation and speaking timers are the exam's, to the second, so two minutes thirty stops feeling like a suggestion.

Your transcript, graded

What you actually said is transcribed, scored on the CEFR scale and marked up like a written answer — hesitations and repetitions included.

A partner for the interaction

Tâche 2 needs somebody to question. The AI plays the examiner in role, so the one tâche you cannot rehearse alone becomes the one you can.

How the practice works

Four steps, from the first recording to one you would be happy for an examiner to hear.

1
Pick the tâche
One of the three spoken tâches, on its own or as a full twelve-minute sitting in exam order.
2
Prepare, then record
The preparation clock runs, then the recording starts. Neither waits for you, exactly as on the day.
3
Read your transcript, marked
What you said, written down and corrected — the fillers, the repetitions and the tense you dropped all become visible.
4
Record it again
The second take of the same tâche, right after reading the correction, is where a speaking mark actually improves.

A structure that fills the time

Four rules that turn two and a half minutes from an ordeal into a shape you can rehearse.

Practise tâche 3

1
Use the same skeleton every time: situate the question, give your position, two arguments with an example each, then close. Rehearsing the skeleton is what makes the content easy.
2
Bring the examples with you. There is no preparation time to find any, and you will invent wording while speaking far more easily than you will invent an example under pressure.
3
Concede something. 'Certes, on peut comprendre que… mais' is the single structure that most reliably lifts this tâche's mark.
4
Prepare a closing line and use it. Stopping cleanly at 2:20 reads far better than being cut off mid-sentence.

Frequently asked questions

Two and a half minutes, and they start straight away: there is no preparation time.

General-interest questions — technology, work, the environment, education, everyday habits. Nothing needs specialist knowledge, and no opinion is marked as wrong.

There is no preparation time in which to write any, so the plan has to be one you already know. That is exactly why a skeleton you have rehearsed beats arguments you have collected.

That is a structure problem rather than an ideas problem. A fixed skeleton — position, two arguments with examples, conclusion — reliably fills the time, which is why rehearsing the shape matters more than collecting arguments.