Table of Contents
- What can you expect from the DELF A2 Exam?
- First step to get ready for your exam
- Practising French Level A2 with Kwiziq French
- What does the CEFR French level A2 cover?
- French Level A2 Grammar
- Smash your French DELF A2 exam
What can you expect from the DELF A2 Exam?
DELF A2 tests whether you have achieved basic competency as a "social actor". This means you’ll be challenged to communicate through simple, routine tasks requiring the most common polite phrases and exchanges of information.
DELF A2 Test Sections | Duration | Mark out of |
Listening | Approximately | 25 |
Reading | 30 mins | 25 |
Writing | 45 mins | 25 |
Speaking | 6 to 8 mins | 25 |
Exam duration: 1 hour 40 minutes
* Total mark out of 100
* Overall pass mark: 50/100
* Pass mark per test: 5/25
First step to get ready for your exam
We can help you practise for your DELF A2 French exam to perfection! Sign up for a free Kwiziq French account today to get your personalised Studyplan filled with in-depth lessons and tailored kwizzes based on your French level.
Kwiziq French works out what you already know and what you need to work on so that you don’t waste time going through the basics and you’re always learning new stuff and always progressing at your pace.
You can also listen to sample recordings for the DELF A2 listening sectiontoget an idea of the difficulty of each level and the type of situations presented. Or download a sample paper for DELF A2 here.
If you want some practical tips and fun, engaging exercises hand-picked by us, take a look at our .
Practising French Level A2 with Kwiziq French
If you're registered to take the DELF A2 exam and you want to really smash it, you’ll need to perfect your French grammar first.
We’ll help you go into all the detail you need, as well as give you plenty of material to practise so when you get to the exam, you’ll feel full of confidence!
What does the CEFR French level A2 cover?
French Level A2 grammar
Just like Level A1, the DELF A2 exam is still considered a basic level. At the A2 level, you should be able to talk about simple tasks and understand phrases and expressions about your personal life - like your name, age, place of residence, occupation, etc.
So let's look at some of the topics that the French A2 level covers:
As you can see, there's a huge amount to cover in A2 French. You'd probably pass your DELF A2 exam knowing just a fraction of this, but since you can't know what you'll be tested on, we recommend you practise as much as possible!
Also, remember the exam is a means to an end: perfecting your A2 French is the real goal.
A2 French: Nouns and Articles
Comparisons of nouns: ‘De plus en plus de’ and ‘de moins en moins de’= more and more and less and less
Forming the plural of nouns ending in -ou
Nouns that change meaning depending on whether they're masculine or feminine
A2 French: Adjectives and Adverbs
Possessive adjectives: "mon" rather than "ma" with feminine nouns starting with a vowel or mute h
Possessive adjectives: Using mon, ma, mes, etc with parts of the body
Possessive adjectives: Using son, sa, ses and personne, tout le monde, chacun, il faut
Possessive adjectives: Use notre/nos when on means we, but son/sa/ses when it means people
Irregular adverbs: bien, mal, mieux, moins, peu
Ce/cet/cette and ces = this/that and these/those
Making comparisons with adjectives and adverbs (2 topics)
Adjectives after personne, rien, tout le monde, quelqu'un are always masculine
Indefinite adjectives: d'autres vs des autres= others
Frais, long, favori, rigolo have irregular feminine forms
Quel, quelle, quels, quelles + noun= What a...
A2 French: Prepositions
Monter dans, descendre de = To get on, off transportation
Time and place: après / avant VS devant / derrière
Time: Expressing for + [duration] with either pendant, durant, depuis or pour
Time: en VS dans
A2 French: Numbers, Dates and Times
Approximate Numbers: une dizaine = ten or so
Durations: prochain / dernier = next / last
Saying 'from ... to ...' + dates and times
Doing arithmetic: numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
A2 French: Verb Conjugation
Conjugate verbs in the present tense (Le Présent) (14 topics)
Conjugate verbs in the compound past (Le Passé Composé) (26 topics)
Conjugate verbs in the imperfect tense (L'Imparfait) (9 topics)
Using nous, vous, ils/elles when conjugating verbs for multiple people
Translating the -ing form of verbs with L'Infinitif (not -ant)
Expressing necessity and obligation: il faut
Making comparisons with verbs: plus que, autant que, moins que
A2 French: Forming Questions
Forming inverted questions in the present tense (4 topics)
Forming inverted questions with subject pronouns in the compound past
Forming inverted questions with names, things and emphasis
Questions: quel, quels, quelle, quelles= which / what
Questions: que… = what...
Questions: qui, qui est-ce qui= who
Questions: qui / qui est-ce que= whom
Questions: qu'est-ce qui + [verb] = what [does]...
A2 French: Negatives
Negation Phrases: “Ne…[pas du tout, plus, personne, rien, pas non plus, aucun(e), ni…ni, pas encore, pas assez (de)]” (9 topics)
Position of direct and indirect object pronouns with negation
Restrictive ne … que = only (simple tenses)
Forming simple negative commands (L'Impératif)
Using 'ne ... pas' with compound tenses (negation)
N'avoir plus de = To have none left (negation)
A2 French: Pronouns
Direct Object pronouns: replacing nouns with le, la, l', les = it, him, her, them
Indirect Object pronouns: replacing people with lui, leur = him, her, them
Using tout, tous, toute, toutes= Everything, all (of them), whole
Indefinite Pronouns: quelqu'un, quelqu'un d'autre= someone, someone else
Indefinite Pronouns: l'autre, les autres = the other one/ones
Advanced stress pronouns: Moi, toi, lui, elle, soi, nous, vous, eux, elles
Expressing quantities: quelques, plusieurs, de nombreux= a few, several, many
Affirmative commands: me becomes moi
Object pronouns: Le, la, les vs lui, leur in affirmative commands
Express each/each one/every: chacun, chacune, chaque
Possessive pronouns: le mien, le tien, le sien= mine, yours, his/hers/its
Possessive pronouns: le nôtre, le vôtre, le leur= ours, yours, theirs
A2 French: Idioms
Aimer = to love, like something / someone
Using 'trouver' to express 'to find' and opinions
Using 'sentir bon' and 'se sentir bien'
Avoir raison / tort / de la chance = To be right / wrong / lucky
Using "plaire" to express liking something / someone
Aller à = to suit someone (expressions with aller)
Visiter vs rendre visite à = To visit a place vs a person
Connaître vs savoir = to know something vs to know how to do
Expressions with faire (6 topics)
Expression of time: il y a + duration = ago
Using ‘être en train de’ to express ongoing actions in the past
S'en aller = To leave
Smash your French DELF A2 exam
Now that you know what topics Kwiziq French can help you practise based on your level, you can start working through them one by one!
Remember you can improve your study sessions enormously if you include our quick and challenging kwizzes! By taking quizzes, our algorithm identifies your knowledge gaps and suggests to you the topics you need to work on the most.
Make sure you read our detailed guide for your A2 exam with practical tips and exercises for you to smash your French DELF A2 exam!
And if you’re ready for your French DELF B1 exam, read about the topics it covers or keep browsing through our list of 8 official French proficiency tests and diplomas to see which is the right one for you.
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