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AP French Preparation with TV5Monde ONLINE

Saturday • 11:30am - 1:00pm

Instructor: Bangaly Camara

$545 Course Fee

FROM JANUARY 24 THROUGH MAY 9 - NO CLASS ON FEBRUARY 28 & APRIL 11

This AP French preparation course leverages the vast resources from TV5MONDE, providing students with authentic materials to enhance their oral comprehension, cultural knowledge, and mastery of grammar and vocabulary. The course includes targeted activities to practice key AP French exam tasks like essay writing, email responses, and cultural comparisons. Through exposure to varied French accents and regions, students will gain a solid foundation for the exam while improving pronunciation, ensuring they communicate effectively in French.

Course Materials

The site Enseigner le français avec TV5MONDE is a goldmine filled with hundreds of educational resources. The pedagogical scenarios provided in the TV5MONDE worksheets help reinforce the skills needed to prepare students for varied situations on the AP French® exam.

Through TV5MONDE’s educational activities, students strengthen their cultural knowledge, are exposed to different varieties of the French language with authentic materials, and work on the pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary needed for exam practice:

  • Students can work on listening comprehension through various audiovisual formats, encountering different speaking rates, intonations, and accents;
  • Exposure to diverse geographical regions allows students to build general knowledge of different Francophone countries, helping them feel more comfortable with the oral presentation requiring a cultural comparison;
  • Students can strengthen their methodology for written production tasks, such as argumentative essays and email responses;
  • The grammar points covered in the worksheets reinforce the linguistic skills necessary for the syntax level required on the exam;
  • The themes of the selected resources align with those required by the AP French® exam. Each authentic document provides an opportunity to acquire vocabulary, enabling students to express themselves fluently on the exam’s various topics;
  • Pronunciation activities provide strategies to overcome common difficulties English speakers face with certain French phonemes. By improving their pronunciation, students increase their chances of being understood.