Eliane Kurbegov Ed.S. - AP French Language and Culture with Online Practice Tests & Audio

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.

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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:

This book is a supplemental resource for students who are preparing for the AP French Language and Culture exam. It is designed primarily to familiarize students with the format and the required tasks of the exam and to offer useful test-taking strategies.

The first objective is to familiarize students with the type of test questions they may encounter on the Advanced Placement French Language and Culture examination. Therefore, students must have access to more than one practice test and to many print and audio passages. Twenty-first century technology allows instructors and students to access many print, audio, and audiovisual resources online. Providing students with all the information they need to prepare for the current exam is a huge task. However, this book does just that. In addition, students should practice for the test in conditions that approximate those of the AP examination. Doing so will contribute enormously to a students level of comfort and confidence when taking the examination.

To meet this first objective, this book includes a general section with authentic print, print and audio, as well as audio passages accompanied by multiple-choice questions. This section will allow students to practice the first section of the examination. These authentic passages come from various French-speaking regions of the world. They have been categorized by theme to ensure that the six themes in the AP French course are represented. Each passage is also accompanied by an introduction that establishes a context for the particular passage. The multiple-choice questions reflect the variety of questions that students will encounter on the actual examination. Explanations of the correct answers are provided to allow students to practice taking this section of the exam, reflect upon their answers, self-correct, and learn from their mistakes. The book also includes a variety of tasks to practice each one of the free-response tasks on the AP French exam. These are accompanied by exemplary responses and essays to serve as models for each task.

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Throughout this book you will come across a few icons that emphasize essential strategies for the AP French Language and Culture exam. Keep a lookout for the following:

Target: This icon indicates strategic ideas that help you complete the task.