The Best Test Preparation for the Ap Spanish Language Exam

by Hughes, Erica R.

• ISBN13: 9780738602943
• ISBN10: 0738602949
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-02
• Publisher: RESEARCH & EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

Summary

REA '¦ Real review, Real practice, Real results. Get the college credits you deserve. AP SPANISH 6th Edition with audio CDs Completely aligned with today's 2007 AP exam Are you prepared to excel on the AP exam? * Set up a study schedule by following our results-driven timeline * Take the first practice test to discover what you know and what you should know * Use REA's advice to ready yourself for proper study and success Practice for real * Two audio CDs provide excellent preparation for the exam's listening comprehension session (book includes transcripts of CDs) * Create the closest experience to test-day conditions with 3 full-length practice tests * Includes pre-exam exercises that target key the key testing areas of listening, reading, writing, and speaking * Chart your progress with full and detailed explanations of all answers * Boost your confidence with test-taking strategies and experienced advice Sharpen your knowledge and skills * The book's full subject review features coverage of all AP Spanish areas that will appear on the official exam. * Smart and friendly lessons reinforce necessary skills * Key tutorials enhance specific abilities needed on the test * Targeted drills increase comprehension and help organize study Ideal for Classroom, Family, or Solo Test Preparation! REA has provided advanced preparation for generations of advanced students who have excelled on important tests and in life. REA's AP study guides are teacher-recommended and written by experts who have mastered the course and the test.

Table of Contents

Study Schedule

Excelling On The Ap Spanish Language Exam

Why This Book Is for You

About the Review Section

About Our Audio CDs

About the AP Program

What's on the Exam

About the Exam's Spoken Portion

Scoring the Exam

Scores that Receive College Credit and/or

Advanced Placement

Studying for Your AP Examination

Test-Taking Tips

Contacting the AP Program

Ap Spanish Review

The Alphabet

Rules for Stress in Spanish

Syllabic Division

Articles

Gender

Number

Adjectives

Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

Present Indicative

Preterite and Imperfect

Future and Conditional

Formation of Compound Tenses

The Present Participle

Reflexive Pronouns

The Infinitive

Formation of the Subjunctive

Commands: Formal and Familiar

The Subjunctive-UsesThe "If" Clause

Conjugation of Ser

Conjugation of Estar

Personal Pronouns

Object Pronouns

Gustar

Demonstratives: Adjectives/Pronouns

Neuter Forms

Relative Pronouns

Affi rmatives and Negatives

Interrogatives

The Personal A

Possessives: Adjectives/Pronouns

The Passive Voice

Measures of Time

Telling Time

Hacer with Expressions of Time

Age

Weather Expressions

Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers

Dates

Vocabulary/Idioms

Ap Spanish Language Practice Exam 1

Answer Sheet

Practice Exam 1

Answer Key

Detailed Explanations of Answers

Ap Spanish Language Practice Exam 2

Answer Sheet

Practice Exam 2

Answer Key

Detailed Explanations of Answers

Ap Spanish Language Practice Exam 3

Answer Sheet

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Answer Key

Detailed Explanations of Answers

Appendix

Transcripts

Glossary

English to Spanish

Spanish to English

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Excerpts

EXCELLING ON THE AP SPANISH LANGUAGE EXAM WHY THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU This book will help you master the revamped AP Spanish Language Exam rolling out for 2007, with complete coverage fully embracing the exam's new format and question types. REA offers the total test prep package, with comprehensive printed and audio materials that take you through the newly integrated listening, speaking and writing portions of the exam. As you may already know, the test covers subject matter deemed to be comparable to an advanced-level college course in Spanish Composition and Conversation. Why use this book? Because you don't want to leave anything to chance on test day. While our prep is designed to be effective for self-study, this book also lies at the heart of hundreds of AP Spanish classrooms in schools across the United States. Our targeted subject reviewspecially designed to complement your textbookand three full-length practice tests, featuring detailed explanations for each answer, will put you in the best possible position to succeed on the exam. We also provide a 500-word English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English glossary. It's all about giving you the confidence you need to score well on the AP Spanish Language Exam come May. ABOUT THE REVIEW SECTION This book begins with a substantive review of the Spanish language. This review includes conjugations of regular and irregular verbs, pronouns, idioms, as well as other parts of speech. After each new topic, we offer drills to enable you to practice the vocabulary and rules you have just reviewed. At the end of the practice tests is our 500-word English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English glossary. With it, you will not only be able to locate Spanish words you do not know from the reading passages but you can also review words that will help you provide a more detailed answer to the essay or speaking parts of the exam. (Please note that no dictionaries will be allowed at the time of the actual exam.) ABOUT OUR AUDIO CDS At various points throughout the practice tests, you will need to stop the test CD and record your responses on a recording device. Make sure to have a recording device available. Follow the directions carefully by listening to the directions on the CD as well as following the tests in this book. ABOUT THE AP PROGRAM The Advanced Placement Program is intended to provide high school students with the opportunity to pursue college-level studies and, if they test sufficiently well, gain actual college credit or placement for that work. In fact, most colleges and universities in the United States and in more than 30 other countries grant incoming students credit, placement, or both according to their AP Exam scores. WHAT'S ON THE EXAM? The AP Spanish Language exam is divided into two sections. The first section is a 90-minute multiple-choice section that tests listening and reading comprehension. The second section, a free-response section, is approximately 100if minutes long and tests the student's speaking and writing skills. Section I. Multiple choice (50% of your grade): This section is composed of two parts. Part A is the listening comprehension portion of the test. You will listen to a series of dialogues, narratives, and lectures on audio CD. You will then answer questions based on each. Part B is the reading comprehension part of the exam. Students read several passages and answer questions about each. Section II. Free response (50% of your grade): Part A of the free-response section consists of four distinct parts. The fist exercise requires the student to read a paragraph and fill in the correct form of the root words that have been provid