I love the materials. It teaches grammar in an experiential way rather than drills, which they get plenty of at school. The Japanese translations are very helpful – especially to teachers who want to keep their classes in English. All the patterns are learned intuitively through looking at the translations. Nice. I love the reading for fluency and comprehension with time recorded, though I am not sure how you get them to time themselves. Do you provide everyone with timers? The final task of writing your own dialogue is so important, and something that students really need structured, graduated, regular experiences doing. The one thing I don’t understand is Quizlet. I have never used that. Is it set up already, or do teachers have to load in the vocabulary for each month? Anyway, great system. I might consider adding audio for reading and sentences so that students can practice proper intonation. Just a thought…

I like the way you’ve considered varying levels in the class as this is what I am experiencing now. With only a few students going on to the JH course from our ES course we have had to take JH1beginners to fill the class. As much as I would love to trial this I don’t expect to have more than a handful of JH1 students from April this year.