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French AP · Chapter 7 · Unit 2: Language and Culture

How language works

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

10 vocabulary lessons (113 words), 2 grammar lessons, 1 story, 2 exam-style sets.

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  1. Vocabulary

    Languages and linguistics

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

  2. Reading practice

    My grandmother's language

    Reading: a short story set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

  3. Vocabulary

    Lying, shouting, supporting

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

  4. Vocabulary

    Noticing and reporting

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

  5. Vocabulary

    Um, huh, hmm

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

  6. Grammar primer

    Slang

    Grammar for AP French.

  7. Vocabulary

    Informing, warning, revealing

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

  8. Vocabulary

    Explaining, specifying, proving

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

  9. Vocabulary

    Persuading, begging, promising

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

  10. Vocabulary

    Claiming, denying, exaggerating

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

  11. Vocabulary

    Chatting, calling, speeches

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

  12. Vocabulary

    Messages, rumours and gossip

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

  13. Grammar primer

    Connectors contrast

    Grammar for AP French.

  14. Listening practice

    Shop signs in French

    Listening: a radio report on a street of shops in Montréal, Québec.

  15. Read a story

    Read: On dîne chez Laurie

    A reader to close how language works.

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