Students in Year 9 and 10 may continue their studies of a foreign language in the following ways:
a. they may continue in their present language
b. they may change to a different language with teacher approval
c. they may pick up another language in addition to the one being studied with teacher approval
d. they may start a language for the first time
In the case of (b) or (c), ‘catch up' work will be required as Year 8 work will be revised only briefly at the beginning of the course.
The emphasis is on communication in the four skill areas: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Course outline
In this course students will learn about:
- giving personal information – birthdays, address and phonenumbers, nationality
- likes and dislikes, food and drinks, school subjects
- past activities, time, timetables
- your family and another family
- making plans
Other topics that will be studied include:
- leisure activities – asking and saying where activities happen, what you do in your free time.
- making phone calls
- parts of the body
- talking about the weather
- animals and pets
- time, number 100 – 1000, counters
- shopping and Japanese money
- describing things
Writing the Japanese script including:
- Revision of Hiragana script
- Katakana script
- 30 basic Kanji in Year 10
Assessment of Japanese language studies
How is this subject assessed?
You will be assessed in the four skill areas: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Assessment tasks may take the form of dialogues, topic tests, reading and listening comprehension, writing tasks, interviews and culture-based assignments.
Studying Japanese in senior school
Can you do this subject in the senior school?
Japanese can be studied at 2 unit continuers level in Year 11 and Year 12 if the student has studied Japanese in Years 9 and Year 10.
Japanese can be studied at 2 unit beginners level in Year 11 and Year 12 if the student has not studied Japanese in Years 8, 9 and 10.