The Student Activities Manual (SAM) contains both workbook and lab exercises. Discrete-point exercises are grouped according to essential grammatical points, enabling instructors to assign exercises according to the points covered, thus spreading out the amount of work to be done, or to be done all at once.  Experiential journal writing assignments are primarily based on the cultural texts in order to provide students practice in more creative and personal uses of the language. The lab manual contains oral exercises targeting the use of each chapter’s grammar points, a listening comprehension section, and a short dictation.