AP Spanish Language and Culture - Summer Work Señora Kacher

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1 AP Spanish Language and Culture - Summer Work Señora Kacher kacherc@avoneagles.org Por qué tenemos que trabajar durante el verano? You are being asked to do summer work to familiarize yourself with the expectations and format of the AP Spanish exam while maintaining your Spanish over the summer. The work you will be doing will keep your listening, speaking, reading and writing skills active and will encourage you to develop good habits for improving these skills in Spanish. General Directions: YOU MUST USE AUTHENTIC, NON-US RESOURCES TO COMPLETE ALL WORK! (American media that has been translated is NOT authentic.) Please do all activities completely and to the best of your ability. I will be using this work to assess your skills upon starting the new school year. You will receive a grade for this work. Los diarios, los articulos, and the sentences with vocabulary words will all need to be completed on the worksheets in this packet. PARTE I: AP CENTRAL Become familiar with EVERYTHING that is published on the AP website about this exam. Success on the AP Spanish Exam: The AP Spanish Language Exam is a 3 hour skill-based exam testing your abilities and proficiency in Spanish. It is not a knowledge-based exam like most other AP exams. You are on stage in Spanish for over 3 hours integrating all four of your skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Familiarize yourself with the AP Spanish Language Exam Format included in this packet. The exam assumes and demands critical, integrated expression in Spanish. In addition to the reading and writing portions of the AP Spanish Language exam, you must record an improvised two-minute cultural comparison as well as a simulated conversation. You must show a high level of analysis, synthesis and evaluation in this presentation to receive a 4 or 5. The AP Spanish Language class is an intense, demanding course. Our goal is for you to receive a 3 or above on the exam. If you have questions, visit the website at: Ap Spanish Language Exam Format Section I: Multiple Choice 65 Questions ~ 95 Minutes 50% of Exam Score Part A: (30 questions) Interpretive Communication: Print Tests Part B: (35 questions) Interpretive Communication: Print and Audio Texts (combined) Interpretive Communication: Audio Texts Section II: Free Response 8 Prompts ~ 80 Minutes 50% of Exam Score Interpersonal Writing: Reply (1 prompt) Presentational Writing: Persuasive Essay (1 prompt) Interpersonal Speaking: Simulated Conversation (5 prompts) Presentational Speaking: Cultural Comparison (1 prompt)

2 PARTE 2: LOS DIARIOS: This work should be completed on loose leaf paper and attached to this packet. You must keep a diario all summer. Your summer work must consist of 10 journals (one per week) of at least 60 words. The grammatical focus should be preterite/imperfect, talking about what you did. You must also include entries that respond to the following topics: what you plan to do in the future, your hopes and dreams for next year and beyond and your feelings on a world event of your choice. I will be looking for the utilization of subjunctive, future/conditional, perfect tenses. There should be a representation of all of the tenses in Spanish. In addition, I expect to see transition words and that you pay attention to your noun/adjective as well as noun/verb agreement. MAKE SURE TO WRITE THE DATE IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER OF THE PAGE. These sites offer great support for writing in Spanish. Rules for punctuation, capitalization, etc. are included here along with helpful vocabulary lists. PARTE 3: LOS ARTÍCULOS Read and do the following activities for 5 newspaper or magazine articles (document the origin of your article). 1. Cut and paste or print and staple 5 articles from a real (or printed from the internet) newspaper or magazine in Spanish (resources are in this document) to the record sheet I provided you in the packet. Read the article. Make sure to number your article to match your summary. 2. Write a summary of the article in your own words in Spanish in a welldeveloped paragraph. When you write a summary please consider the following questions: 1. De qué o de quién se trata? 2. Cuándo ocurrió? 3. Qué pasó? 4. Dónde ocurrió? 5. Por qué es importante esta información? (o por qué es interesante?) You may choose to use the following websites or find some of your own. You may also use magazines in Spanish, but don t limit yourself to fashion/sports/gossip magazines. YOU NEED TO LEARN CURRENT EVENT VOCABULARY FOR THE AP TEST. NEWS RESOURCES: (news from Spain) (general information and human interest stories) (general information) (online magazine from Columbia) (places in Mexico) (news from Buenos Aires, Argentina o PARTE 4: HABILIDAD DE ESCUCHAR

3 You will need to spend a minimum of 5 hours listening to authentic Spanish this summer, preferably in 30 minute increments. You will keep a log of exactly what you listen to and when you were listening to it on the record sheet I provided. Title each listening instance with the name of the program, the source (TV station, podcast, etc.) date and time. You will need to document 5 separate instances of listening activity (In other words, one 2 hour movie cannot count for 2 hours towards your total. It can count for up to one hour but then you must listen to other types of broadcasts and you must have 5 separate instances.). For each entry of your listening log, you will write a short reflection in Spanish indicating the content, difficulty of listening and your interest in that source. (Minimum of 8 sentences.) Obviously this is a listening activity, so DO NOT put subtitles on for the program. Suggestion: Find something that interests you sports, a soap opera, and a show or movie on Netflix. News on the radio or TV will be the most useful in the long term. If you can find a show that you enjoy watch the series and see if you can keep up. If you like sports, watch sports. Due to the limited vocabulary used during a sporting event, you may only use a sporting match to account for ½ hour of your total time. Due to the on in the background nature of music and the fact that you don t actually have to understand it to appreciate the beat, music does not meet listening criteria. Give yourself time. It will take your ear a while to adjust. You won t understand everything, but you re not supposed to. The goal is to understand enough to know what s going on. Do this on a weekly basis to keep your skills fresh. If you try to cram it all in at the end, you defeat the purpose. PARTE 5: HABILIDAD DE HABLAR There is no specific assignment here, but it would be in your best interest to attempt to speak some Spanish with someone over the summer. Get into the community and meet people at restaurants, churches, Latino markets. Get together with your AP language classmates every couple of weeks for dinner or coffee just to talk in Spanish. PARTE 6: EL AÑO QUE VIENE Start collecting information to develop a presentation of what you did during the summer, and what you had hoped to do, but ultimately didn t. It s much easier to begin now and think ahead by taking pictures of fun or interesting things done during your summer break with friends or family (please keep it school appropriate). Your diarios will be very helpful with this. A. You will be required to make a slide presentation with at least 10 slides with both pictures or photos and text (in the past tenses). B. If you start now you can practice it ahead of time in order to present a clean, fluid presentation for the class without reading it (which you are not allowed to do!). C. Presentations will begin the second week of school. I will give you a rubric and more details when we start school. Honor Code College students are required to abide by an honor code that forbids them from cheating, lying and stealing, both within the academic world and as members of the college community. I expect the same commitment to honor from you, as a member of a college-level course. What this means is that you are expected to complete all assignments on your own, without consulting native-speakers or translation devices of any kind. Your work should represent what you are capable

4 of doing using as resources your mind, grammar books or notes and a dictionary. If you are not sure about how to utilize an original source without plagiarizing, please ask me and I can give you tips. I do not expect your production of Spanish to be without error at this level. Translation devices are prohibited at all times. No one may EVER proof-read your work, suggest changes to your work or make changes to your work unless I have specified these activities within the parameters of peer evaluation. Anyone found in violation of these policies will be subjected to disciplinary action. Just for fun: An AP Spanish student should be familiar with the tenses listed below. He/she should know how to form each tense as well as when to use each one. The following web site may be helpful to practice these grammar points. This is not a required assignment. Go to and enter the web-code for the following grammar points. Grammar Point Web-code 1. Present Tense 1. jkd Preterit Tense 2. jkd Imperfect Tense 3. jkd Present Perfect/Pluperfect 4. jkd Ser vs. Estar 5. jkd Progressive Tenses 6. jkd-0027 (Present/Imperfect/Future) 7. Present Subjunctive 7. jkd Present Perfect Subjunctive 8. jkd Imperfect Subjunctive 9. jkd Pluperfect Subjunctive 10. jkd Commands 11. jkd Other Uses of Subjunctive 12. jkd-0025, jkd Future/Future Perfect 13. jkd Conditional/Conditional Perfect 14. jkd Por vs. Para 15. jkd Words that Confuse 16. jkd-0031 News Article #1 Please complete the following information in SPANISH. Título del artículo Autor Fecha Nombre del periódico o sitio web

5 Parte I. Escribe un resumen del artículo (10-12 frases). News Article #2 Please complete the following information in SPANISH. Título del artículo Autor Fecha Nombre del periódico o sitio web Parte I. Escribe un resumen del artículo (10-12 frases). News Article #3 Please complete the following information in SPANISH. Título del artículo Autor Fecha Nombre del periódico o sitio web

6 Parte I. Escribe un resumen del artículo (10-12 frases). News Article #4 Please complete the following information in SPANISH. Título del artículo Autor Fecha Nombre del periódico o sitio web Parte I. Escribe un resumen del artículo (10-12 frases). News Article #5 Please complete the following information in SPANISH. Título del artículo Autor Fecha Nombre del periódico o sitio web

7 Parte I. Escribe un resumen del artículo (10-12 frases). Listening Log #1 TV/Radio log: Fecha Selccionar: TV Radio Podcast Otro Nombre del programa Tiempo: 15 minutos Media hora Una hora Una hora + Qué entendiste? Write a short reflection in Spanish indicating the content, difficulty of listening and your interest in that source.

8 Listening Log #2 TV/Radio log: Fecha Selccionar: TV Radio Podcast Otro Nombre del programa Tiempo: 15 minutos Media hora Una hora Una hora + Qué entendiste? Write a short reflection in Spanish indicating the content, difficulty of listening and your interest in that source.

9 Listening Log #3 TV/Radio log: Fecha Selccionar: TV Radio Podcast Otro Nombre del programa Tiempo: 15 minutos Media hora Una hora Una hora + Qué entendiste? Write a short reflection in Spanish indicating the content, difficulty of listening and your interest in that source. Listening Log #4 TV/Radio log: Fecha Selccionar: TV Radio Podcast

10 Otro Nombre del programa Tiempo: 15 minutos Media hora Una hora Una hora + Qué entendiste? Write a short reflection in Spanish indicating the content, difficulty of listening and your interest in that source. Listening Log #5 TV/Radio log: Fecha Selccionar: TV Radio Podcast Otro Nombre del programa Tiempo: 15 minutos Media hora Una hora Una hora + Qué entendiste? Write a short reflection in Spanish indicating the content, difficulty of listening and your interest in that source.

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