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Jia You! Chinese for the Global Community is a full-year program for intermediate students of Chinese. It is designed for college students in second-year Chinese as a foreign language program and senior high school students taking the AP Chinese Language and Culture Exam.

Jia You! encompasses 10 units and is divided into two volumes. Each unit addresses a specific theme of contemporary or historical Chinese culture with two lessons designed around the theme. Each lesson consists of Chinese texts, content-based presentations of vocabulary, grammar, common expressions, and exercises.

The program includes Student Textbooks, Workbooks, Audio CDs, Instructor’s Resource Manuals, Video on DVD and a companion website.  The bound-in Jia You! Audio CDs provide the audio program for all narratives, dialogs and vocabulary in the textbook.

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Benefits:

• Interweaves the teaching of Chinese language and culture
• Integrates the "5Cs" of National Standards for Foreign Language Education - Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons and Communities
• Incorporates authentic, colorful photographs of people from different Chinese speaking cultures and their activities
• Integrates current, engaging and thought-provoking texts of different forms and discourse styles to expose students to a broad range of written texts
• Integrates content-based vocabulary, grammar, exercises and activities
• Offers a broad range of communicative exercises
• Provides prompts and example sentences to step learners through speaking and writing tasks
• Features supplementary practice texts for advanced learners
• Integrates Simplified and Traditional characters
• Workbook exercises, which are modeled after the AP Chinese exam, test learners on cultural knowledge and all four language skills
• Empowers instructors with a comprehensive teaching resource; Offers practical teaching tips, expanded notes and supplementary culture information