Botchan - Natsume Soseki

Theme Social Issues Botchan is a novel written in 1906. It is considered to be one of the most popular novels in Japan. A Tokyoite known only as Botchan thinks teaching a bunch of high-school yokels in the sticks will be simple-after all they re essentially living in yesteryear. But our narrator soon learns that he is surrounded by schemers and tricksters and that the teaching job that should have been a walk in the park is more like a walk off a plank. Can he survive and make it back to civilization on Moral Fibre alone Syllabus Nouns Abstract concrete animate inanimate collective common proper nouns countable uncountable. Pronouns Interrogative who what Indefinite someone something everything anything nothing. Quantifiers All a lot of some any more. Adjectives Demonstrative possessive qualifying. Prepositions Place Position and Direction Time. Verbs Affirmative Negative Interrogative Infinitives regular and common irregular verbs Present Simple Present Continuous with present meaning Simple past Imperative. Modal verbs can have to must.