Texts in spoken Standard Chinese were developed to improve and update Chinese materials to reflect current usage in Beijing and Taipei. The focus is on communicating in Chinese in practical situations. The overall course is organized into 10 modules, student workbooks, and resource modules. This workbook covers the orientation and biographic information modules and includes exercises and communication games. The communication games set up defined, limited situations to talk about, and players are provided different information so that they can exchange this information. Goals are provided for communication games. (SW)