Compréhension des écrits
The reading axis: B2 texts, from explicit argument to implicit meaning and tone.
You read a newspaper column, understand every sentence, and reach the end unsure whether the writer is for the measure or against it. No word was difficult. The position simply was never stated — it was carried by a certes that conceded before it attacked, by an or that turned the argument, by a quotation reported in a way that quietly disowned it. Reading at B2 is not vocabulary. It is following a line that the text expects you to reconstruct.
This domain works the two faces the épreuve actually tests. The first is explicit: find the thesis, map the plan, and use the connectors as the skeleton they are — d'abord, or, en revanche, ainsi — so that eight hundred words of argument become four moves you can hold in your head. The second is what is not written: inference, tone, irony, register, the author's voice separated from the voices they report, and the presque-vrai answer that is designed to be chosen by someone reading quickly. Both are worked on authentic press, scientific and administrative prose, then under exam timing.