Spoken Vietnamese for Beginners : Instructor's Manual for Activities Manual

The activities manuals for Spoken Vietnamese for Beginners are designed to supplementeach of the textbook s twenty lessons.

They consist of preliminary chapters introducinguseful classroom expressions and additional chapters that are divided intofour sections: writing activities, listening activities, oral activities, and pattern drills.The writing activities sections provide exercises to help students practice newvocabulary and grammar points and develop reading and writing skills.

The listeningactivities sections contain questions and activities based on the dialogues, monologues, and narratives featured in the Spoken Vietnamese audio program.

Theoral activities sections start with controlled exercises, continue further with guidedexercises, and then end with role playing exercises so students can integrate and recombinematerial previously studied with new materials learned.

The pattern drillssections include exercises in substitution, transformation, and response.

Theseactivities manuals and the accompanying audio program that will be made availableonline can be used either with a teacher or for self-study.

Professors, their pupils, oranyone learning Vietnamese on their own will appreciate their instructional value.The instructor s manual for Spoken Vietnamese for Beginners proposes generalclassroom procedures and advises professors and teachers alike how to use the textbookeffectively in conjunction with its two activities manuals.

It includes adviceon how to introduce new vocabulary and dialogues; how to introduce new patternsor new grammatical structures; how to work with students on oral practices; howto work with them on their writing activities; and how to work with them on theirlistening activities.

The keen wisdom and helpful guidance in the instructor smanual will be welcomed by professors and teachers that use Spoken Vietnamese forBeginners and its two supplemental activities manuals in the classroom."