Vision Quest 1:
Reading and listening exercise starts each chapter. This is actually one of the better ones, later chapters have barely any relevance to the grammar.
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Followed by four pages of grammar and fill in the blank exercises for that grammar. Many chapters have 6 pages of this.
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The "expressing" exercise, the only part of the chapter that apparently has anything to do with speaking. Ugh. Explained entirely in Japanese. I'm not sure why you couldn't write "Where, When, etc" in English rather than write "場所,時期, etc", especially when you write examples directly opposite. Then when it comes to conversation the entire script is written out below. Finally you transfer the same words into the 2nd person script. How rewarding Note that the whole thing is based around copy-pasting from the numbers in each step, so students only input 6 words for the entire activity. Frankly this is one of the better activities.
Now, what Vision Quest does have (that is good) is some "optional" activities in the back. Some of them are... ehh, not great but not so terrible either. I'm pretty sure any half decent ALT could come up with better, but that's beside the point. These are, however, shoved in the back and not really obvious. And again, they are very hand-holdy. This textbook also does the complete bullshit in later chapters of saying "students will discuss in a pair/group" without giving any other guidance or setup as to how they will do so when you've given them a script for every other lesson. Amazing.
Vision Quest II just throws the pretense that they've paid any attention to the MEXT guidelines completely out of the window:
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Lessons are just two pages filled with grammar and a "goal" for them to write 60 words about the related topic. No guidance on how to do this however, just a big list of vocab for them to use in the back of the textbook. It doesn't seem there's a team teaching guide for this at all. If there is, my school didn't buy it. If anything the one strength of Vision Quest I was the team teaching guide.
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Hilariously these two pages are entitled "Grammar Focus". And the regular "Lessons" are focusing on what, exactly? There are 5 of these for the whole year.
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Finally we get to the "expressing" part. 2 pages of which 1 is just an example. So 1 page with any nod to speaking or even using English at all. There are 5 of these too, so in total 10 pages for speaking, with half of those being examples. I mean Jesus, was there any selection process at all for these? What was this selected over?
Vision Quest II continues into the 3rd grade too, at which point the lessons are about making presentations and debating, again with no build up or guidance as to how to wean them into it, just "alright debate, go". I mean... has anyone in this company ever been to a Japanese school? After two years of doing barely any speaking (according to your own textbook) you want them to suddenly be capable of making presentations and arguments in English? At this point you're lucky if they can say what they did last weekend (not exaggerating, I had a 3rd grade girl say "I went go to is shopping last weekend" just the other day and was completely unsurprised... by 3rd grade their knowledge of English is just a huge CF inside their addled sleep-deprived brains)
So yes, just another one of many reasons why the declared intentions of MEXT mean absolutely nothing. This textbook shouldn't be allowed in schools, let alone adopted by a majority of BoEs in my prefecture.