Eliane Kurbegov - AP French Language and Culture Premium, 2023-2024: 3 Practice Tests + Comprehensive Review + Online Audio and Practice

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Eliane Kurbegov is from Strasbourg, France. She has been teaching French in high schools and universities in both Florida and Colorado throughout her career. As a high school teacher, she began consulting for the College Board: leading workshops, writing test items for the AP French exam, creating materials for AP workshop manuals, and participating in the exam and course redesign in 2011. She has scored AP exams as a reader, table leader, and question leader for over twenty years. In addition, Eliane has trained and mentored AP consultants and is currently monitoring the AP French Language and Culture Course Teacher Community. She is the author of numerous French manuals published by Barrons and McGraw Hill, as well as the author of French for Dummies and co-author of the AP French textbook Thmes published by Vista Higher Learning.

Ed Weiss has spent his career teaching French at both the high school and college levels in the Philadelphia area, as well as serving as World Language department chair at the secondary level. Ed has worked for the College Board for over twenty years and has served as an AP reader, table leader, and exam leader for the AP French Language and Culture exam. Ed is a national consultant for the College Board and has led Advanced Placement Summer Institutes for French teachers around the country. He has also developed workshop and online materials for the College Board. He is a three-time recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute grants and has been a presenter for ACTFL, AATF, and at the AP French reading. He is a co-author of levels one and four of the Wayside Publications French series EntreCultures.

The purpose of this book is to provide you with the best possible preparation for the AP French Language and Culture exam. Using the tools included in this book will help prepare you for success on exam day.

Read this section first to learn all about the format on the test, the types of questions you are going to be asked, the types of sources you will encounter, and what the different sections of the exam will require you to do. A discussion of how the test is scored is also included to give you an idea of what the scorers will be looking for in your responses.

Next, move on to the review chapters, where you will find extensive practice and commentary for each part of the exam. The more practice you have with answering these AP-type questions, the better prepared you will be on test day.

At the end of the book we included two full-length practice exams. Keep in mind that taking a practice exam under actual testing conditions (all at once and within the time limit) is always best. Every exam includes an explanation of the correct answers as well as an Score Analysis Sheet.

In addition to the two practice tests within this book, there is also one full-length online practice exam. You may take this exam in practice (untimed) mode or in timed mode. All questions include answer explanations. The audio for all listening practice is also included online. All listening practice is spoken by native French speakers and represents a variety of sources.

The organization of this book is designed to take you through each section of the exam, allowing for ample practice in mastering each type of question. By answering the review questions and by taking the practice tests, you will have an indication of how well you will do on the actual exam.

Suggest to your students that they use this book along with their course materials for added practice. When used in tandem with classroom assignments, this book should offer your students the opportunity to use the material to reinforce classroom learning.

As you work toward achieving that on your AP French Language and Culture exam, here are five essentials that you MUST know above everything else: