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AP Spanish LanguageIn this advanced engagement with Spanish, students deepen their focus and fine-tune their skills in four key areas of foreign language acquisition: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing—integrating these skills to demonstrate understanding of, and respond to, a variety of authentic texts. The intensity, quality, and amount of material can be compared to a third-year college course. The majority of the course is conducted almost entirely in Spanish. In addition, students read significant works of literature in Spanish, and respond orally or in writing to these works. Students thoroughly review the basics of Spanish grammar; practice listening skills with authentic dialogues, narratives, and passages; master common and a wide range of specialized vocabulary terms and phrases; instigate and continue increasingly involved conversations, and respond appropriately to naturally paced, increasingly involved, or open, conversational prompts on a wide variety of topics; generate language, incorporating basic and specialized vocabulary and a range of grammar patterns; write various types of essays—narrative, expository, descriptive, analytical and opinion; analyze and compare cultural practices, products, and perspectives of various Spanish-speaking countries; express verbally with correct grammar, a rich vocabulary, and clear pronunciation through explanations, narrations, inquiries, arguments, etc.; and regularly assess progress in proficiency through quizzes, tests, and speaking/writing submissions.

Continuing the pattern, and building on what students encountered in the first three years, each unit consists of a new vocabulary theme and grammar concepts, numerous interactive modules reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking, and writing activities, and multimedia cultural presentations covering major Spanish-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas. The course has been carefully aligned to national standards as set forth by ACTFL (the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), and specifically designed to prepare students for the AP Spanish Language Exam.

Course length: Two semesters

Materials: Vox Everyday Spanish and English Dictionary

Prerequisites: WLG 300: Spanish III, or equivalent

unit 1

• The Hispanic Family

• What Is in a Name?

• What Is in a Name?

• Welcome to AP Spanish

• The Adventure Begins

• Skills and Strategies for Listening Comprehension

• Listening Comprehension Practice

• Grammatically Speaking

• Our Class Community

• Cloze Passages

• Focus on the Language

• Improving Your Oral Spanish

• Speaking Activity

• Authentic Audio Activity

• Authentic Written Text

• Authentic Speaking Activity

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• Test

• The Family Tree

• The Family Tree

• Family Relationships

• Skills and Strategies for Reading Comprehension

• Reading Comprehension Practice


• Cognates: Friend or Foe?

• Using Cognates


• Essay Writing Tips

• My Family




• Test

• Traditions and Customs

• Traditions and Customs

• Family Traditions

• Listening Strategies for Dialogues

• Dialogue Listening Practice


• Picture Panel Storytelling

• Storytelling


• Literature Reading

• Critical Review




• Test

• Unit Wrap-Up

• Unit Wrap-Up



unit 2

• Education

• High School and College

• High School and College

• Schools in Mexico

• Content Analysis of Written Passages

• Reading Skills Practice


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• Essay Writing Steps

• My Most Memorable Memory

• Error Recognition

• Check Your Skills





• Test

• School Subjects and Professions

• School Subjects and Professions

• What Are You Studying?

• Listening Strategies for Short Narratives and Longer Passages

• Listening Practice


• Directed Responses

• My Education and Career Goals



• Critical Review




• Test

• Student Life

• Student Life

• Daily Life as a Student

• Vocabulary Recognition 1

• Checking Your Skills

• Life as a Mexican University Student


• Essay Types: Narrative


• What I Did Yesterday




• Test

• Unit Wrap-Up

• Unit Wrap-Up

• Education

• Education

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unit 3

• Health and Nutrition

• The Human Body

• The Human Body

• A View from the Inside

• Medicine in Central America

• Paragraph Completion



• Storytelling





• Test

• A Healthy Appetite

• A Healthy Appetite

• What Is There to Eat?

• Structural Analysis of Written Passages




• Critical Review


• Reflecting on the Past




• Test

• Staying in Shape

• Staying in Shape

• Get in Shape!

• Health Habits


• My Own Fitness





• Test

• Unit Wrap-Up

• Unit Wrap-Up



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unit 4

• Recreation and Pastimes

• Champions!

• Champions!

• Fun in the Sun

• Notes, Cautions, and Tips on Reading Comprehension



• Essay Types: Expository

• Winning the Championship

• Sentence Completion





• Test

• Traveling Tales

• Traveling Tales

• On the Road Again



• Tourism in Cuba


• Storytelling





• Test

• Free Time

• Free Time

• Having Fun

• In the News

• News Reporting



• Critical Review





• Test

• Unit Wrap-Up

• Unit Wrap-Up



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unit 5

• Semester Review

• Semester Wrap-Up

• Semester Wrap-Up

• AP Spanish Semester 1

• Semester Final Exam

unit 6

• The Arts

• In the Eye of the Beholder

• In the Eye of the Beholder

• Looking Forward to Second Semester

• Creative Genius

• Art History


• Speaking Activity

• Art Tour





• Test

• Author! Author!

• Author! Author!

• Through the Library


• Tone and Characterization Analysis


• Critical Review


• Life and Works of an Author




• Test

• The Latin Beat

• The Latin Beat

• Moving to the Music

• All About Music


• My Music Preferences


• Latin Music



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• Test

• Unit Wrap-Up

• Unit Wrap-Up

• The Arts

• The Arts

unit 7

• Commerce

• Going Shopping

• Going Shopping

• At the Market

• Daily Shopping



• Essay Types: Descriptive

• Describing Types of Stores




• Test

• In Style

• In Style

• Exploring Styles

• Changing Styles



• Critical Review


• Storytelling




• Test

• Money Matters

• Money Matters

• Learning about Currency

• Tips for Cloze Passages


• Essay Types: Analytical

• Making Comparisons





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• Test

• Unit Wrap-Up

• Unit Wrap-Up

• Commerce

• Commerce

unit 8

• Changing Technology

• Get Connected!

• Get Connected!

• Computers and the Internet

• Technical Savvy


• Using Technology



• Critical Review




• Test

• Communication Around the World

• Communication Around the World

• Global Communication


• Increasing Communication






• Test

• Getting There

• Getting There

• In the City

• Listening Comprehension Skill Builder


• Story Telling





• Test

• Unit Wrap-Up

• Unit Wrap-Up

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unit 9

• Government and Politics

• Building a Nation

• Building a Nation

• National Power

• Reading Skills

• Revolutionary Movement


• Essay Types: Opinion

• Government Advisor





• Test

• Community Action

• Community Action

• Members of a Community

• Listening Comprehension Skill Builder


• A Part of Your Community





• Test

• Social Awareness

• Social Awareness

• Expand Your Vision


• Critical Review


• Building Social Awareness





• Test

• Unit Wrap-Up

• Unit Wrap-Up



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unit 10

• Final Exam and Course Review



• Wrapping Up

• AP Spanish

• Final Exam

unit 11

• AP Question Practice

• Practice Questions

• Practice Questions Listening Comprehension

• Practice Questions Reading Comprehension

• Practice Questions Vocabulary

• Practice Questions Grammar I

• Practice Questions Grammar II

• Practice Questions Essay Writing

• Practice Questions Speaking

• Focus Sheets



• Resources for Building Listening Skills

• Resources for Building Reading Comprehension Skills

• Resources for Building Vocabulary

• Idiomatic Expression Recognition


• Essay Types

• Articulatory Phonetics

• Improving Your Oral Spanish

• Essay Writing Strategies

• Tips and Past AP Exam Questions

• Tips and Past AP Exam Questions

unit 12

• Topics/Diagnostics

• Listening Comprehension

• Topic 1: Listening Comprehension

• Listening Comprehension

• Reading Comprehension

• Topic 2: Reading Comprehension


• Vocabulary

• Topic 3: Vocabulary

• Vocabulary

• Grammar I: Cloze Passages and Error Recognition

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• Topic 4: Grammar I: Cloze Passages and Error Recognition

• Grammar I: Cloze Passages and Error Recognition

• Grammar II: Paragraph and Sentence Completion

• Topic 5: Grammar II: Paragraph and Sentence Completion

• Grammar II: Paragraph and Sentence Completion

• Essay Writing

• Topic 6: Essay Writing

• Essay Writing

• Speaking Spanish with Oral Proficiency

• Topic 7: Speaking Spanish with Oral Proficiency

• Speaking Spanish with Oral Proficiency


• Topic 2: Reading Comprehension


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