Well, it is not about what comes first. The main part is the verb, and it comes LAST. Everything else precedes the verb and is marked by a particle, and the particle defines the relationship to the verb. That's all I'm telling you now. Go practice a few sentences online.

For example, I wrote one phrase in English: "I recently have read a novel by a Japanese writer about living of butterflies". Thus, in Japanese the construction of this phrase will look like such: I recently butterflies of living about a Japanese writer an novel have read. (I 1) (recently 9) (butterflies 8) ( of 7) (living 6) (about 5) (a Japanese writer 4) (an novel 3) ( have read 2). So you can see what the order of the words is in this phase. Is it clear?

Doesn't your course teach you that stuff?

I think it just depends on how you arrange your modifiers.