The Writing and Reading Activities for each topic chapter reinforce the vocabulary and structures presented in Let’s Speak Vietnamese. After completing a corresponding subsection in the textbook, the instructor can assign the appropriate exercises in the Workbook Manual. This section provides a variety of exercises to help students practice using new vocabulary and grammar points introduced in the lessons of the main text and develop reading and writing skills. Some of these exercises can be done as group or pair activities in class or as homework.
The Listening Activities section contains activities and questions based on the dialogues, monologues, or narratives recorded in the accompanying audio program. We have made every effort to provide the students with authentic-sounding Vietnamese discourse, in both dialogues and monologues. However, in most exercises the instructions and questions are given in English, so that the students do not have to spend a lot of time decoding written Vietnamese. In most of the listening activities, students can answer the questions without understanding every word in the recording. These activities can be done in class, language laboratory, or at the students’ home. All the spoken material for the Listening Activities is recorded in the audio program, and the tape scripts are included in the Instructor’s Copy.
Except for those exercises that require personalized and/or creative answers, the answers to all the writing, reading, and listening exercises are included in the Instructor’s Copy.