Since both physical and digital books have their own advantages and disadvantages, the CARE Books project, which stands for Creative Augmented Reality Electronic Books, provides both physical copies and online copies of a book so that teachers do not need to struggle between print books and e-books. For the physical version of the CARE books, students can flip the pages to read and scan the QR code to access the audio and video of the story in Augmented Reality. While for another version of the CARE books, students can visit our multimodal platform here to read the story online and access audios, videos and follow-up learning activities so as to practice their reading, speaking, listening and comprehension skills.

The first CARE book “Have You Seen My Mooncakes” tells a story about a family who plan to enjoy mooncakes together on Mid-Autumn Festival. Teachers can use this book to connect with students’ own experiences, develop their confidence to express themselves in context, practice their comprehension skills as well as communicative skills and evaluate their language abilities without scaring them away from making mistakes. For language focus, teachers’ options include: simple present tense, simple past tense, present continuous tense, present perfect tense, wh-questions, alternative questions, imperative sentences, exclamatory sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, conditional sentences and direct speech.