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AP Chinese Language and Culture
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Free AP Chinese Language and Culture study notes for AP (Advanced Placement) students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Listening task types (Section II Part A)
Conversation
Instructional Guidance
Presentation
Audio Report
Audio and Chart
Reading task types (Section II Part B)
Article
Article and Chart
Correspondence
Literary Text
Promotional Material
Interpretive skills
Explicit meaning and supporting details
Main idea, theme and purpose
Intended audience, point of view and tone
Word and phrase meaning from context
Organizing and rhetorical structures
Connecting and synthesizing across sources
Inferring implied meaning
Data points, patterns and trends in charts
Written response tasks (Section I)
Story Narration: building the four-picture story
Story Narration: detail, elaboration and consistency
Email Response: answering both requests
Email Response: greeting, closing and register
Organization and cohesive devices
Language control: accuracy and variety
Grammar in use
Word order, topic-comment and basic sentence patterns
Measure words, quantities and classifiers
Aspect and time: le, guo, zai, zhe
Comparison and degree structures
Complements: result, direction, degree, potential
ba and bei sentences
Connectives and complex sentences
Negation, questions and modal verbs
Vocabulary and functions
Asking for and giving information
Expressing opinions, preferences and attitudes
Advice, suggestions, requests and invitations
Describing people, places and events
Narrating and sequencing past events
Numbers, dates and the language of data
Idioms and culturally relevant expressions
Register: formal and informal language
Thematic units
Families and Communities
Language and Culture
Art and Creativity
Science and Technology
Contemporary Life
Global Contexts
Cultural understanding
Cultural products
Cultural practices
Cultural perspectives
Comparing cultures across communities
Linking perspectives to products and practices
Course project: research, sources and citation
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