In URL 16, Transcribing, Sari and Luna listen to a CD of Botchan's traveling from Tokyo. And as I said many times in the book and in these video clips, the students have to experience the same language over and over again to master the use of articles, particles and prepositions and things like that. So the first step could be read and look up then it could be listening and transcribing. Another step is for students to create sentences based on the reading and that's what you're going to see

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... i and Luna doing right now. The questions as I said are being asked about the first couple of paragraphs in the title of Botchan travels, leaves Tokyo for Shikoku. But the students have this version of the reading passage, the mirror image because it's important to have a variety and novelty. Looking at the same thing requires much less thinking.