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.
Click here to view the table of contents, scope and sequence, and a sample chapter.
Unit 1 Sports and Fitness
Lesson 1 Shaolin Kung Fu
Lesson 2 What\'s Your Favorite Sport?
Unit 2 Food and Fashion
Lesson 3 The Beijing Teahouse
Lesson 4 What Should a Bridesmaid Wear?
Unit 3 School and Family
Lesson 5 Chinese is Fun!
Lesson 6 My Father, Lao She
Unit 4 Festivals and Customs
Lesson 7 Celebrating the Chinese New Year
Lesson 8 Moon Festival
Unit 5 Travel and Transportation
Lesson 9 Planning a Trip to China
Lesson 10 "I Climbed the Great Wall"