P67 · Lexique & Expression

Vocabulary in this discipline has always existed — scattered. The series connectors live in the writing rungs, the concession move in another, selon is taught from the reading side, and every listening set carries its own words. That is fine while you are working through a rung, and useless the moment you ask the only question that matters before an exam: what have I still not met?

P67 is that question's home. It holds two things a candidate needs and cannot assemble from the axes alone.

La boîte à outils de l'expression — the ready-made phrases, keyed by what they do: introduce a subject, develop a claim, attach an example, concede and come back, give an opinion at a chosen strength, state a fact, attribute a position to somebody or to a study, and conclude. Written and spoken are given separately wherever they diverge, because they do: il ressort de cette étude que belongs on paper, ce que montre cette étude, c'est que is what you can actually say. Each phrase is marked courant or soutenu, so you never carry a written formula into a conversation without knowing that is what you are doing.

Les lexiques par thème — the words a B2 candidate is expected to deploy rather than merely recognise, one standard thematic domain at a time. These are the CEFR/DELF B2 subject areas: work, environment, health, education, digital life, city and housing, culture, consumption. They are standard domains, not a record of which subjects appeared in recent sessions.

Nothing here replaces the axes. The phrases are shown at work in the annotated models on P47, and the same toolkit carries the monologue and the discussion on P45. This pillar is where you come to check what you have, and to find what you are missing.