El DELF B2 en 2027: la regla del 5/25, la parrilla de evaluación y el debate
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- 0:00In the DELF B2 speaking test, you give your opinion, and then the examiner questions it for ten minutes or more.
- 0:08The writing paper asks for the same skill on paper: take a side and argue it in at least two hundred fifty words.
- 0:16So half of the marks depend on defending an opinion: here is how that is marked, the rule that can sink a good total, and the French that does the work.
- 0:27There are four papers, each marked out of twenty-five.
- 0:30Listening, reading and writing are sat together in two and a half hours: half an hour of recordings, an hour of texts, and an hour for one argued text.
- 0:41Speaking is a separate test with two examiners: thirty minutes to prepare, then up to twenty minutes in the room.
- 0:49The listening and reading papers currently come in two versions, with two or three exercises, and the exam body says neither version gives an advantage.
- 0:59To get the diploma, you need fifty of one hundred in total, and at least five of twenty-five in every paper.
- 1:06The total lets a strong paper carry a weaker one: eighteen, sixteen, nine and eight make fifty-one, and that candidate passes.
- 1:15Change the papers to twenty, eighteen, nine and four, and it is still fifty-one, but the four is under the floor, so there is no diploma.
- 1:24The rules call any mark under five in a paper eliminatory.
- 1:29Five sounds low, and in writing and speaking it usually is, if you do the task you were set.
- 1:36Writing and speaking are each marked on five criteria, and each examiner gives every criterion zero, one, three or five points.
- 1:46One means below B2, three means B2, and five means B2 plus, so a criterion never scores two or four on an examiner's sheet.
- 1:57For the written text, the five are the task, coherence, register, vocabulary and grammar.
- 2:04A text that is below B2 on all five still scores five, exactly the floor.
- 2:11A text that misses both the topic and the type of text asked for loses the task, coherence and register completely, and can score two at most.
- 2:23That is under the floor, so one misread task can cost the diploma, whatever your other three papers say.
- 2:30The writing task gives you a situation and a reader, for example a letter to your mayor contesting a decision.
- 2:38At B2, the grid asks for a clear argument with reasons for and against, not just your own view.
- 2:45This card from our writing deck does both in one sentence.
- 2:56Certes grants the other side a point, and mais outweighs it: the part after mais is the one you defend.
- 3:05Our connectors deck has the second way to concede.
- 3:14Bien que always takes the subjunctive, even for a real fact, and the card's note calls getting it wrong one of the most frequent mood errors in B2 essays.
- 3:25Some words are right in one paper and marked down in the other.
- 3:29This connector is how people say on the other hand when they speak.
- 3:38Par contre is fine in the speaking test, but in a letter or an essay the note says to write en revanche, because par contre is often marked down as too familiar.
- 3:51In the speaking test, you draw two short documents, choose one, and prepare for thirty minutes.
- 3:58First you talk alone for five to seven minutes: what the document is about, the question it raises, and your view with examples.
- 4:09Then comes a debate of ten to thirteen minutes, and the candidate handbook tells you not to hesitate to disagree with the examiner.
- 4:17You need three moves: show you understood, disagree politely, and hold your position.
- 4:33The debate has its own line on the speaking grid, so these phrases earn marks of their own.
- 4:39So the words that win these two papers are not rare ones: they concede, contrast, open a talk and hold a position, in the right register.
- 4:49Our French B2 kit has one hundred eleven writing phrases, one hundred speaking phrases and one hundred twenty connectors, each with a note like these.
- 4:59Every phrase sits in a full sentence with audio, so the mood and the register come with it.
- 5:05Find out for free how many words from the kit you already know: the link is below.
- 5:11Next to it is a free reading practice, seven questions in the shape of the first reading exercise, with every answer explained.
- 5:20Then pick a side, grant one point, and hold your ground.
Una guía en vídeo de cinco minutos sobre el DELF B2: las cuatro pruebas, la regla de al menos 5 sobre 25 en cada prueba, cómo califican una opinión las parrillas de expresión escrita y oral (0, 1, 3 o 5 puntos por criterio) y las frases en francés que conceden un punto, lo rebaten y mantienen tu postura en el debate, con tarjetas del Kit de examen de francés B2.