Genevieve Brand - 5 Steps to a 5: AP French Language and Culture

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Welcome to the AP French Language and Culture review book. This guide will help you understand the major components of the exam and give you tips to obtain a higher score.

The book includes some learning strategies to use in a systematic way throughout the year, a test-like diagnostic exam, two practice exams, and many authentic resources with multiple-choice questions that reflect the format of the exam. The AP French Language and Culture Exam is a panorama of the Francophone world, and tests the skills you developed in French in the last four years. Imagine the test as if you were reading a Francophone newspaper online. There are many tabs (themes), titles of articles (sub-themes, introductions and organizers) and finally articles, audio, advertisement, and other things. When you take the test, you will in fact be clicking on tabs to read critically, to listen with interest, to answer thorough and pertinent questions, and to compare and develop an informed point of view that will allow you to participate in a conversation on a given topic. The exam can be truly seen as a comprehensive reading experience, a conversation with a friend, and a cultural report written after a long stay in a place where people speak franais.

I would like to thank my husband Ken for his support during the writing of this book. Many words of gratitude to my sons: Sbastien, Franklin-Xavier, and Kennethyour kindness and encouragement were invaluable. Merci to the four of you who were understanding and there for me all along. Your support was warmly felt and provided a dose of sanity. A merci to my parents, who were enthusiastic about this endeavor, and whose pied-noir culture has always given me strength. My thanks to Grace Freedson for giving me the opportunity and to Del Franz for asking me the right questions. My thanks to Frdric, Pascal, Marie-Hlne, Paul and Camille, who contributed, and to Jean-Frdric Heinry, Ivan Kabacoff, Claude Vittiglio, Benjamin Mozelman, as well as to the teams of La Croix, Jeune Afrique, Inserm, Fonds de Recherche du Qubec, Elles comme linguistes, Terres australes et antarticques franaises (TAAF), Onisep, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), and the United Nations, without whom this specific panorama of the Francophone world would not have been possible. Finally, to all my students who have been with me all these years. Un trs grand merci vous tous.

Genevive Brand is a native speaker of French who is currently teaching French and Spanish at Avon High School, Connecticut, and serves as an adjunct in the University of ConnecticutECE Program. Genevive leads workshops and summer institutes for the College Board. She has presented workshops for ACTFL and AP conventions. She is serving as a Question Leader at the national reading for the AP French exam. In addition, she was on the Development Committee of the AP French & Culture exam from 2012 to 2015.

When you started French in high school, in middle school, or even earlier, little did you know that years later, you would enroll in a challenging course, all in French, about the culture and practices of the Francophone world. This review book is going to help you finalize your review and assist you during the AP French year. It is going to be a useful tool to guide your review before the exam. Its numerous practice exercises and tips will help you to do better and to achieve a better score.