B2 reading: argument & structure

A B2 text is rarely a list of facts; it is a move. The author concedes, then objects; renvoie deux camps dos à dos, then displaces the question; opens with the received idea precisely to knock it down. The compréhension des écrits épreuve tests whether you see the move, not just the words.

Read for three things:

1. The thesis — often not the first sentence. Watch for l'essentiel est ailleurs, la question n'est donc pas… mais…: the author telling you where the real claim lives.
2. The plan — concession (certes, que… nul ne le conteste) is scaffolding: whatever follows mais outranks whatever preceded it.
3. The conclusion's scope — does the text conclude on the example, or on the principle behind it?

Five short press-style texts, one structural question each. Every distractor is something the text says; only one option is what the text argues.

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