For your convenience, we have created an Adventures in Japanese 4th Edition Sampler that covers the updates to the series in greater depth. You can download a PDF copy of the sampler here.
Textbook
- New full-color design with up-to-date photos and content
- Easier to read and to navigate
- More photos bring Japanese culture to life
- Updated vocabulary reflects changes in technology and in Japanese society
- More exercises and activities
- New grammar exercises have been added for each grammar point
- New authentic materials provide students with real-world reading practice
- New Common Core activities are included in the Culture Notes
- New 21st Century Skills activities ask students to extend their learning with technology
- Students use Japanese in new Connect activities to practice in other career-based disciplines
- Improved pacing
- Now with 8-12 lessons per volume, making Adventures in Japanese easier to complete in one year
- New introductory lesson in Volume 1 allows teachers to flexibly introduce hiragana, katakana, kanji, and pronunciation
- Can Do statements and self-assessment checklists have been added to each lesson
- Introduction of 60 additional kanji
- Free audio recordings for Vocabulary, Language in Context, Grammar models, review questions, audio activities, and Culture Notes by native speakers from Tokyo
- available for download from the companion website at aij.cheng-tsui.com
- Recycling of key grammar structures and vocabulary
Workbook
- Regular workbook exercises and hiragana, katakana, and kanji writing exercises now combined into one workbook
- Additional listening practice
- Now with character reading practice in both horizontal and vertical forms
Teacher’s Guide to Go
- All teacher materials available as convenient digital files (Vol. 1-2 on USB flash drive, Vol. 3 available as digital download)
- Tons more support for teachers! Pacing Guides, lesson organizers, standards correlations, professional development articles, and more available at aij.chengtsui.com
Companion Website
- New companion website at aij.cheng-tsui.com hosts all student resources and some teacher resources
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