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French AP · Chapter 19 · Unit 5: Contemporary Life

Media, pop culture and travel

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

10 vocabulary lessons (96 words), 2 grammar lessons, 1 story, 2 exam-style sets.

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  1. Vocabulary

    Media and advertising

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

  2. Vocabulary

    Media and pop culture

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

  3. Listening practice

    The capital of African cinema

    Listening: a radio report from FESPACO, the pan-African film festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

  4. Vocabulary

    Heroes, stars and roles

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

  5. Vocabulary

    Travel and hotels (going further)

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

  6. Grammar primer

    Subjonctif passé

    Grammar for AP French.

  7. Vocabulary

    Only, mainly, purely, fully

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

  8. Vocabulary

    Exactly, correctly, literally

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

  9. Vocabulary

    Previously, formerly, from now on

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

  10. Vocabulary

    Planes, pilots and take-off

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

  11. Vocabulary

    Jokes, laughs and pranks

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

  12. Vocabulary

    Reporters, magazines and scoops

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

  13. Grammar primer

    Participe present gérondif

    Grammar for AP French.

  14. Reading practice

    Climbing the Old Lady

    Reading: a flyer for a guided hike up La Soufrière volcano in Guadeloupe.

  15. Read a story

    Read: Une fausse nouvelle au lycée

    A reader to close media, pop culture and travel.

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