Textbook | Target | *Beginners with some basic knowledge *Must read hiragana and katakana *For students who have completed about 60 hours study |
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Goals |
*Compound sentence patterns *Using various verb forms *Basic conversation for the workplace and everyday situations (saying opinion, reported speech, advice, ability comparison, experience, etc.) *Reading and writing basic kanji *Learning 1,023 words and 168 kanji. |
Chapter | Topic | Grammar points | |
1 | 1 | *Consulting someone about what to buy as a souvenir *Asking someone their preference for food, drink, etc. |
*Describing about the cast *Revision-adjectives *"somewhere, anything, anyone・・・" Doing something to see how it goes |
2 | 1 | *Stating and asking preference and soliciting *Making comparisons-Expressing the superlative degree |
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3 | 1 | *Making comparisons-Expressing the superlative degree | |
4 | 1 | ||
5 | 2 | *Shopping | *Getting an information or advice (I would like to ・・・, but・・・) *Stating decisions (choosing and decision) |
6 | 2 | *Making comparisons-single out an item for comparison | |
7 | 2 | *Describing about your family | |
8 | 3 | *Searching for a lost item | *Connecting Related Sentences |
9 | 3 | *Describing ongoing actions or states in effect | |
10 | 3 | *Going somewhere to do something | |
11 | 3 | ||
12 | 4 | *Routines & habits | *Plain present (dic-form and nai-form) *Expressing a sequence of events "before" (Lesson 7) |
13 | 4 | *Asking for and offering explanations | |
14 | 4 | *Expressing frequency | |
15 | 5 | *Talking about past experiences | *Plain past (affirmative-form) *Talking about past experiences |
16 | 5 | *Plain past (negative-form) |
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17 | 5 | *Telling the time | |
18 | 6 | *Talking about your health | *Adverbial form *Going somewhere to do something and coming back |
19 | 6 | *Not yet *Making strong suggestions |
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20 | 6 | *Palin-form of Adjective & Noun | |
21 | 6 | *Asking for and offering expressions | |
22 | 7 | *Talking about someone's personal history | *Expressing a sequence of events "after" *When |
23 | 7 | *Plain past (affirmative-form) | |
24 | 7 | *Plain past (negative-form) | |
25 | 8 | *Talking about changes that have over a town *Talking about an old acquaintance and how they have changed ties |
*Describing a change in state |
26 | 8 | *Plain form of Adjectives and of Nouns + desu *When |
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27 | 8 | *Using direct and indirect quotation | |
28 | 8 | ||
29 | 9 | *Describing a building's facilities *Describing your personal effects *Describing someone's personality |
*Forming Modifying Clauses |
30 | 9 | *Nominalizing Sentences | |
31 | 9 | ||
32 | 10 | *Giving a reason *Expressing potentiality |
*Giving a reason |
33 | 10 | *Expressing Potentiality | |
34 | 10 | ||
35 | 11 | *Expressing volition:"I am thinking about ・・・" *Giving a reason *Forming indirect questions |
*Expressing Volition: "I am thinking about ・・・" |
36 | 11 | *Giving a reason | |
37 | 11 | *Forming indirect questions | |
38 | 11 | ||
39 | 12 | *Expressing uncertainly *Taking about future events coming into being |
*Expressing uncertainly |
40 | 12 | *Talking about future events coming into being | |
41 | 12 | *Intransitive verb and Transitive verb | |
42 | 13 | *Describing a change in state *Making hypothetical statements |
*Describing a change in state |
43 | 13 | *Making hypothetical statements | |
44 | 13 | ||
45 | 14 | *Stating the result of an action or event *Indicating that an action or event has been fully completed *Making conditional statements |
*Stating the result of an action or event |
46 | 14 | *Indicating that an action or event has been fully completed | |
47 | 14 | *Making conditional statements | |
48 | 15 | *Speaking of national statements *Expressing necessity |
*Speaking of natural or habitual results |
49 | 15 | *Expressing necessity | |
50 | 15 |