Year 10 Japanese
Overview
The Year 10 Japanese Course aims to further develop and expand student's previous knowledge of Japanese. Students will explore situations and events associated with the main themes of Teenagers and the Local Neighbourhood.
Over the year, students expand their language skills to include themes such as fashion trends, festivals and celebrations, leisure activities, part time work and their local community. Students, now well versed in hiragana and katakana, will develop their kanji reading and writing skills.
Highlights of Year 10 typically include festivals, examining the influence of Japan in our local community, restaurant outings and many short skits around shopping.
Topics
- The Individual - Daily Routines, Seasons, Friends
- Japanese Speaking Communities - Traveling in Japan, Shopping, Entertaining, Seasons, Staying in a Japanese Home
- The Changing World - Teenagers, Fashions and Trends
Assessments
The student's achievements are assessed generally at the end of the unit of work. There is at least one assessment per skill each term. These assessments may vary in time but usually will take up to a lesson (50 minutes) to complete. Assessments are carried out according to the Outcomes below.
Outcome One: Listening and Responding
Outcome Two: Spoken Interaction
Outcome Three: Viewing, Reading and Responding
Outcome Four: Writing
Reporting
Reporting will be based on the following descriptions for each grade:
A Excellent: The student demonstrates achievement that has greatly exceeded the expected standard. Their achievement is well beyond what is expected at this year level.
B Good: The student demonstrates achievement that exceeds the expected standard.
C Satisfactory: The student demonstrates achievement at the expected standard. The student is able to progress to the next level of learning.
D Limited: The student demonstrates achievement below the expected standard. The student demonstrates a quality of learning that is adequate for progression but will still need additional support or assistance to progress.
E Very Low: The student demonstrates achievement below the minimum acceptable for this year level.
Student expectations
Focus on developing skills in listening and speaking, reading, viewing and responding and writing. Employ a variety of ways to learn a language such as:
- Review work covered in class
- Learn new words, expressions and grammatical structures
- Complete reading and writing tasks commenced in class
- Research
- Speaking practice
- Revision for tests
- Review mistakes and rewrite texts with corrections
- Practicing reading and writing characters in Japanese
