Year 7
Unit 1: Meeting New People
In this unit, students will revisit simple introductions, greetings, sentence structures to share information about their personal world. Students will create an Anime representation of themselves and introduce themselves to new people. Students focus on writing and speaking skills.
Unit 2: Ready, Steady, Cook!
In this unit, students will explore the culture for food. Students learn more about kanji (borrowed words). Students select a Japanese inspired recipe e.g. sushi, okonomiyaki and write a bilingual recipe card. Numeracy will be a strong focus with numbers and quantities. Students will use Education Perfect App to do fortnight quizzes to check for understanding.
Year 8 Japanese
Unit 1: Let's go out for a meal!
Students learn more about the cultural practices of meal time. Students learn about ordering and exchanging conversation at a restaurant. Students work in pairs to create a role play to practice their Japanese. Students focus on listening and speaking skills.
Unit 2: Festival Fun
In this unit, students will explore the culture of community celebration. Students will plan present information comparing local community celebrations. Students focus on writing and speaking skills.
Year 9 Japanese
Unit 1: Daily Routines
In the unit, students revise the basic sentence structures. Students learn more about time to describe the daily routine for family members. Student learn time and hobbies and revise like/dislike. Students learn to read in script. Students will be assessed on their reading skills, selecting information from stimulus to respond to questions in English.
Unit 2: Let's go shopping
In the unit, students learn the different roles between customers and shop keepers. They learn more about cultural respect in exchanges in shops. In the unit, students learn currency, clothing vocabulary, and questions such as 'How much is this?'. Students revise colours. Students focus on listening and reading skills.
Unit 3: Let's fly away
In the unit, student learn about Japanese culture and how families behave inside and outside the home. Students learn what it would be like to stay with a Japanese family, understanding the rules and expectations. Students compare their own lives to Japan, explaining what they have learnt.
In the second part of the unit, students learn about travelling in Japan: weather, transport. They learn a range of sentence structures to describe when, where, how, what to see. Students focus on writing and speaking skills.
Year 10 Japanese
Unit 1: Jpop Culture
In this unit, students learn more about the subcultures (manga, aizuchi, media advertising). Students focus on reading Japanese script, listening and writing about the subcultures in Japan.
Unit 2: My future
In this unit, students learn more about the role and responsibilities of young people entering the work force. Students read and listen to Japanese youth talking about their part-time jobs and future plans. Students read job advertisements and select a job to which they will write a cover letter to apply. Students focus on reading, listening and writing skills.
Unit 3: Captain Planet (environment)
In this unit, students will explore the ways in which people communicate about social issues in Japan. Students will learn more about the relationship between language, culture and identify. Areas of foci include animals (Whaling and shark culling- cultural assumptions), recycling and conservation. Students focus on writing and speaking skills.
Unit 4 Social issues (hikikomori- isolation)
In this unit, students will learn more about the social issues stemming from technology advancements i.e. gaming problem and the impact it has on youth and families. Students focus on reading stimulus and responding to comprehension questions.