College Board-Aligned

AP Chinese Language and Culture

This page follows the current official College Board course outline. Each unit/topic links to original local notes built for studying, practice, and review.

Course Snapshot

6

official units

36

linked topics/skills

Alignment Sources

Units & Topics

Notes

Original EduCompanion Notes

These local notes follow the current College Board AP Chinese Language and Culture unit/topic list.

Unit 3: Influences of Beauty and Art

Unit 3 Topic 1: Understanding audio recordings (for example, a school conversation)

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Unit 3 Topic 2: Reading emails, notes, and other texts

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Unit 3 Topic 3: Engaging in conversations and narratives based on pictures

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Unit 3 Topic 4: Understanding what a speaker or writer means and responding in a culturally appropriate manner

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Unit 3 Topic 5: Exchanging information, ideas, and opinions in discussions and written exchanges

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Unit 3 Topic 6: Identifying, comparing, and explaining how features of cultures in Chinese-speaking communities relate to ideas about beauty and aesthetics

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Unit 5: Factors That Impact the Quality of Life

Unit 5 Topic 1: Understanding audio recordings (for example, responses and replies to a statement or question)

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Unit 5 Topic 2: Reading short stories and other texts

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Unit 5 Topic 3: Applying what you’ve learned from working with real-life Chinese-language materials as you prepare for speaking and writing tasks

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Unit 5 Topic 4: Writing an email response using either simplified or traditional characters and with appropriate formality and format

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Unit 5 Topic 5: Using strategies in conversation such as paraphrasing and asking for clarification

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Unit 5 Topic 6: Discussing different cultural perspectives and using cultural information to prepare and deliver an organized cultural presentation

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Unit 6: Environmental, Political, and Societal Challenges

Unit 6 Topic 1: Understanding audio recordings (for example, an advertisement)

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Unit 6 Topic 2: Reading brochures, advertisements, and other texts

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Unit 6 Topic 3: Carrying out conversations and interviews

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Unit 6 Topic 4: Getting information from sources to prepare and deliver an organized cultural presentation

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Unit 6 Topic 5: Giving and explaining your viewpoint with supporting details and elaboration

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Unit 6 Topic 6: Writing an email response providing suggestions with justifications

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Unit 6 Topic 7: Narrating stories based on a sequence of pictures

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Shared Google Drive Notes

No shared Google Drive notes are currently mapped for this course. Local original notes are still available above.

Practice Questions

Each note page includes a quick practice prompt. Use these unit practice cards to review the same way AP questions ask you to apply ideas, evidence, and reasoning.

Unit 1 Practice

Use the linked notes for Families in Different Societies to answer AP-style prompts, then check your explanation against the official topic list.

  • Define the most important concept from this unit.
  • Apply it to a scenario, graph, source, passage, or data table.
  • Explain the reasoning that connects evidence to the answer.

Unit 2 Practice

Use the linked notes for The Influence of Language and Culture on Identity to answer AP-style prompts, then check your explanation against the official topic list.

  • Define the most important concept from this unit.
  • Apply it to a scenario, graph, source, passage, or data table.
  • Explain the reasoning that connects evidence to the answer.

Unit 3 Practice

Use the linked notes for Influences of Beauty and Art to answer AP-style prompts, then check your explanation against the official topic list.

  • Define the most important concept from this unit.
  • Apply it to a scenario, graph, source, passage, or data table.
  • Explain the reasoning that connects evidence to the answer.

Unit 4 Practice

Use the linked notes for How Science and Technology Affect Our Lives to answer AP-style prompts, then check your explanation against the official topic list.

  • Define the most important concept from this unit.
  • Apply it to a scenario, graph, source, passage, or data table.
  • Explain the reasoning that connects evidence to the answer.

Study Guides

Use this as a unit review index. Open each unit, work through the topic notes, then return here to move to the next unit.

Unit 1: Families in Different Societies

6 topics to review

Unit 2: The Influence of Language and Culture on Identity

6 topics to review

Unit 3: Influences of Beauty and Art

6 topics to review

Unit 4: How Science and Technology Affect Our Lives

5 topics to review

Unit 5: Factors That Impact the Quality of Life

6 topics to review

Unit 6: Environmental, Political, and Societal Challenges

7 topics to review