More with this structure
APEl correo de admisiones.
An email arrives from a fictional Mexican university admissions office asking three specific questions about your goals and background. You read it, notice the formal register conventions, and draft a reply that hits every AP Email Response rubric criterion.
APLa carta de motivación.
Your friend Daniela sent you a draft of her motivation letter for the Patria Grande scholarship and asked for feedback. The letter has strong moments and obvious register slips. You read it, mark the formal-register violations, decide which sentences to keep, and write the rewrite she actually needed.
APEl tutor académico.
Your AP Spanish tutor, Dr. Vargas, texts in formal register. Every reply is in usted, every sentence punctuated, no abbreviations. You need to reschedule a session and send him a draft of your AP Presentational essay. The whole exchange is a 90-second register stress-test that the AP exam will not give you but real academic life will.
Intermediate MidEl milagro forestal de Costa Rica, contado al revés.
An adapted passage on Costa Rica's reforestation success anchors a 17-minute environmental scenario, the deliberate counterpoint to la-amazonia. You watch a France 24 Español segment on the country's climate-policy reputation, study a Wikimedia Commons photograph of the Monteverde Cloud Forest, and read how a country that lost three-quarters of its forest cover by the 1980s has recovered to 52-60% today through the Pago por Servicios Ambientales (PSA) program. The grammar focus is the conditional + counterfactual subjunctive: «si Costa Rica no hubiera creado el PSA, no habría recuperado los bosques»; «otros países podrían replicar el modelo si quisieran». Same three-channel feedback architecture; B1-B2.