textbook section: Shokyu 1

Honsatsu

Honsastu book

25 lessons

Each lesson has 4 parts:

1. Sentence patterns
2. Example sentences
3. Conversation
4. Drills
   1. Outlines basic grammatical structures
   2. Patterns
   3. Conversation
5. Practice
6. review
7. Summary
8. Index

Translation and Grammatical Notes

Each lesson has 5 parts

1. New vocabulary
2. Translation of sentence patterns, example sentences and conversation in Honsatsu
3. Useful words and information
4. Grammar

Audio and Video

CD and DVD extracts for use in lessons are provided

Kanji

220 kanji in syokyuu 1

Kanji Book

Covers all 80 kanji in JLPT N4 (beginner), and 85% o the 245 kanji in JLPT N3 (elementary)

Part II introductory lessons – show the basics of drawing kanji

Part III Main Units

Start each block of kanji units after the last lesson in the corresponding honsatsu block

Honsatsu Lesson	Kanji book unit (corresponding honsatsu lesson)
1
2
3
4
5
6	1
7	2
8	3 (lessons 1-5)
9	4
10	5
11	6
12	7
13	8 (lessons 6-10)
14	9
15	10
16
17	11
18	(lessons 11-15)
19	12
20
21
	13
	14 (Lessons 16-20)
	15
22	16 (lesson 21)
23	17 (Lesson 22)
24	18 (Lesson 23
25	19 (lesson 24)
	20 (lesson 25

Each unit has 4 pages

1) Illustration of Kanji in unit

2) and 3) kanji study

                I recognition

                II writing

                III reading

3) Kanji hakase – summary and exercises

After every 5 units there is a Kanji Ninja, a summary and review of the units.

Reference Booklet

Contains information for the 220 target kanji

Renshucho

                Structured differently to the main kanji book, each unit covers 2 honsatsu lessons, with a revision test every 3 units