Authentic Chinese is innovative, forward-thinking, and groundbreaking. It has long
been awaited by teachers and students in middle and high schools in the United States. The
whole set of materials includes four books: 1) Textbook, 2) Workbook, 3) Task Workbook, and
4) Character Workbook. Different types of free resources are made available for teachers to
save tremendous preparation time. Offering everything that teachers and students need for a
successful class, it makes learning engaging, communicative, and most essentially, authentic.
With the materials at hand, teachers can prepare for each lesson at ease, walk into the
classroom with full confidence, and achieve teaching objectives and goals with easy-to-use and
ready-to-use materials.
Authentic Chinese stands out to be an ideal set of materials with the following eight winning
features.
1. Connect with learners’ daily life experience through a story line.
2. Identify AP Chinese themes that embrace topics in lessons.
3. Use exit tickets to assess learning objectives.
4. Visualize a real China through a wide array of authentic materials.
5. Strengthen reading through Reading Ladders.
6. Consolidate character learning through Character Morsels and Challenge.
7. Deepen understanding of China in Culture Corner.
8. Complete student-centered tasks at ease.
This presentation will highlight the eight winning features and others, outlined below.
--Breakthroughs and eight winning features
--Sample lessons, practice items, student-centered tasks, and character workbook design  
--Guidelines and principles for using the whole set of materials   
--Different types of resources for teaching and learning
--Teacher and student users’ first-hand experience and testimonials