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French · AP French Language and Culture

The AP French Language and Culture course, unit by unit.

A course built on the six units of the College Board's AP French Language and Culture course framework, for students in their third or fourth year of French. The College Board publishes no word list, so the vocabulary is ours: 180 topic groups chosen for the units' contexts, beyond the basics a student brings from French 1 and 2. Each unit ends with an exam-skills chapter, and chapters 1 and 2 are free. 1,923 words across 24 chapters, with the grammar the free-response tasks call for interleaved.

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24
Chapters
303
Lessons
1,923
Words
30
Grammar lessons

Practice sets in the exam's own formats (reading and listening multiple choice, the argumentative essay, and the course project's presentation and Q&A) start arriving in spring 2027, before the May exam. Until then, each unit closes with an exam-skills chapter of writing and conversation tasks with model answers.

Unit 1: Families and Communities

Family relationships across generations, getting along with people, community activities, and life in the city and the countryside.

  1. Family ties

    Family relationships across generations: partners, children, guardians and ancestors.

    10 vocab · 99 words 1 grammar

  2. Getting on with people

    Social interactions: greetings, manners, hosting, friends and how people feel.

    10 vocab · 100 words 2 grammar

  3. Community, town and country

    Volunteering, neighborhoods, and life in the city, the suburbs and the countryside.

    10 vocab · 105 words 2 grammar

  4. Unit 1 exam skills

    Practice tasks and an exam-style reader for Unit 1, Families and Communities.

Unit 2: Language and Culture

Customs and celebrations across the French-speaking world, French in the world from Dakar to Montreal to Louisiana, and how language itself works.

  1. Customs and celebrations

    Festivals, ceremonies and the food and faith around them, across the French-speaking world.

    10 vocab · 101 words 1 grammar

  2. French in the world

    Where French is spoken, from Dakar to Montreal to Louisiana, and the languages beside it.

    10 vocab · 112 words 2 grammar

  3. How language works

    Talking about language itself: dialects, slang, borrowing, translation, and the verbs for informing, explaining and persuading.

    10 vocab · 113 words 2 grammar

  4. Unit 2 exam skills

    Practice tasks and an exam-style reader for Unit 2, Language and Culture.

Unit 3: Art and Creativity

Music, visual arts and architecture, crafts, comics and street art, literature, film and fashion. Music comes first: it is the 2026-27 course project's theme.

  1. Music

    French-language music, its styles, instruments and industry: this year's course project theme.

    10 vocab · 110 words 1 grammar

  2. Visual arts and architecture

    Painting, comics and street art, crafts, buildings and the heritage they carry.

    10 vocab · 112 words 2 grammar

  3. Literature, film and fashion

    Books, movies and TV, fame, and what people wear.

    10 vocab · 108 words 2 grammar

  4. Unit 3 exam skills

    Practice tasks and an exam-style reader for Unit 3, Art and Creativity.

Unit 4: Science and Technology

Personal technology and social media, science in everyday life and health, and innovation, data and charts.

  1. Personal technology

    Phones, apps, social media and the machines around us.

    10 vocab · 114 words 1 grammar

  2. Science in everyday life

    Health, medicine, mental health and the science of staying well.

    10 vocab · 95 words 2 grammar

  3. Innovation and its impact

    Data and charts, invention, research, space and the numbers that describe change.

    10 vocab · 120 words 2 grammar

  4. Unit 4 exam skills

    Practice tasks and an exam-style reader for Unit 4, Science and Technology.

Unit 5: Contemporary Life

School and careers, food, health and sports, and media, pop culture and travel.

  1. School and work

    High school, college, careers and the workplace.

    10 vocab · 114 words 1 grammar

  2. Food, health and sport

    Food and eating out, sports and the competitions around them.

    10 vocab · 108 words 2 grammar

  3. Media, pop culture and travel

    News and journalism, pop culture, celebrity, humor and travel.

    10 vocab · 96 words 2 grammar

  4. Unit 5 exam skills

    Practice tasks and an exam-style reader for Unit 5, Contemporary Life.

Unit 6: Global Contexts

The natural world and the environment, history and policy, migration, trade, and getting around cities.

  1. The natural world

    Nature, the environment, disasters and the land, rivers and coasts.

    10 vocab · 111 words 1 grammar

  2. History and policy

    Revolutions and regimes, politics, government, elections and protest.

    10 vocab · 95 words 2 grammar

  3. Global communication and transport

    Getting around cities, migration, money, trade and the ties between countries.

    10 vocab · 110 words 2 grammar

  4. Unit 6 exam skills

    Practice tasks and an exam-style reader for Unit 6, Global Contexts.

Units from the College Board's AP French Language and Culture Course and Exam Description (effective fall 2026); the vocabulary, the grammar sequence, the readers and the tasks are ours. AP and Advanced Placement are registered trademarks of the College Board. Kilo Lingo is not affiliated with or endorsed by the College Board.