Révision des pièges : les familles de distracteurs du B2
P44.b2-listening.21 · Audience: guest, language-pro, it-ml
Unité CO-23 · campagne 18 · connaître le piège, c'est déjà l'éviter.
Wrong answers at the DELF are not random: item writers build them from a small set of recipes. Name the recipe and you can spot it mid-exam. Open your journal d'erreurs from the two timed runs and match each miss to a family below.
| Family | How it works | Tell-tale sign |
|---|---|---|
| Le mot repris | The choice recycles exact words from the audio, wrapped around a wrong meaning. | You "heard" the answer — literally. |
| Le chiffre déplacé | All numbers in the choices did occur; only one is attached to the right thing. | 80 installés, 120 promis, 40 en attente. |
| Le mauvais locuteur | The opinion is real but belongs to the other speaker. | Two voices, one verb of opinion each. |
| La vérité partielle | Half the sentence is true; the conclusion is inverted. | succès… mais — the choice keeps the success, drops the mais. |
| La paraphrase faussée | A near-synonym shifts the meaning one notch too far. | un déclencheur becomes "un traitement". |
The safest reflex is counter-intuitive: distrust the choice that sounds most like the recording. Correct answers are usually reformulated — « les patients se lèvent pour elle » becomes « la chienne remet les patients en mouvement ». The literal echo is bait.
Each item below is engineered around one family: a hospital's animal- mediation programme (paraphrase), shared composters and their three numbers (chiffre déplacé), a vigneron and an œnologue who disagree (attribution), and the book-boxes whose success hides a mais (vérité partielle). After answering, say aloud which family each wrong choice belongs to — that articulation is the actual exercise.
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