DELF B1 Preparation | Target the Best Result with FTC

DELF B1 Preparation is design to develop your comprehension and your ability to give your opinion in French, by talking to your intelligence, in order to obtain the best score, B1+ marks. Control and succed with our preparation!

Key features

Why take DELF B1 exam?

DELF B1 Expectations

At B1 level, give an opinion and solve problem are the key written and oral skills. Its mastery (in addition to linguistic and socio-cultural skills) will enable you to take the DELF in the best possible conditions. That’s why we are proud of DELF B1 Preparation, we want you to get B1+ to each critera.

FEI offers you two mock exams, one of the old version (Example 2) and one of the new version of DELF B1 (Example 1). This will give you a better idea of what to expect and how much work you’ll have to do.

DELF B1 Preparation | Session content

According to the exam, we offer you two courses : comprehension and give an opinion / solving problem, focusing on production. We do not provide a ready-to-think / ready-to-said material. We want accompany you to develop your own reflexion, in French (and your others languages!), by talking to your intelligence.

Comprehension

Oral comprehension

For listening comprehension, in addition to helping you to understand authentic audio documents (real extracts from radio programs and personal life), we will use pronunciation to help you accelerate your mastery of listening comprehension.

Written comprehension

As for reading comprehension, the aim is to familiarize students with the reading and rapid comprehension of the texts used (current affairs), as well as the strategy to adopt on the day of the exam.

Production

Oral production

Oral production is the only individual test. Lasting 25 minutes (10 for preparation, 15 for passation), it is designed to validate your ability to prensent yourself in detail and solve a daily problem without preparation. The last exercice is defend aén opinion about a social issue (with 10 minutes preparation).

A detailed methodological approach, based on an analysis of your productions, will help you to understand what examintators are expected of you, in order to succeed.

Written production

You have only one hour to propose a good production. The task will be to respond to a simulated situation (professionnal or day-to-day life) in 160 words.

We’ll discover that quantity is a simple thing to achieve. So we’ll be concentrating on substance, i.e. pragmatic competence (when I write, what am I saying?).

DELF B1 Preparation | But also

General culture & Knowledge

It is an important part of your success in the DELF exam, especially the DELF B1. Indeed, the documents are based on national current affairs, on a variety of themes such as education, health, ecology, work, …. So you need to know the main points, which will help you in the production tests. Last but non least, it’s a good introduction to DELF B2.

Personal work

In connection with the weekly mock assessment (every Friday), you will have to produce a personal work to develop the knowledge needed to obtain the DELF B1. As we have seen, DELF is also starting to showing an interest in social issues. We are also here to get you in this particular world, sometimes inconfortable, sometimes exiting.

Digital resources to help you continue your work on reading and listening comprehension will be available in the group’s Google Classroom.

Assessment

At the end of each week, we will offering you a mock DELF B1, designed and assessed according to the criteria set by France Éducation International. This test will help you get used to the exam format. You will receive individual feedback, with one target : obtain B1+ marks.

At the end of the month, you’ll receive an attestation / document indicating the number of hours of coursework completed. You’ll also receive a transcript of your grades, regardless of your results.