Margaret Lee spent many years teaching Japanese, taking students to Japan and writing Isshoni and Tsumiki series of Japanese texts. She is a passionate believer in the need for high-quality learning and teaching resources in secondary schools, and the need to pursue high academic standards.

Clearly structured and easy to follow

Uses a logical sequence of sentence patterns that build on knowledge from previous 'building blocks', with activities that prepare students for the next 'block'

Allows for additional teacher-developed activities to be superimposed on its structure

Presents its core vocabulary in compact, accessible and clearly identified units

Introduces hiragana and katakana in separate units before the text proper, to allow for different approaches to the teaching of Japanese script

Each stage contains a Student Book, Workbook, Audio CDs and Teacher

Comprehensive and careful revision and extension of the structures, language and text types covered in the Student Book chapters.