Critical Content

Copernimester 1

Writing system review - Hiragana and katakana reading without roman characters
· Hobbies- discuss various types of hobbies with friends
· Likes and dislike – communicate your likes and dislike in food, drinks, sports, and colors
· Strengths and weakness – Express the degree of your ability and not strong ability on sports or musical activities ( singing, playing musical instrument)
· New adjectives and adverbs – how to express the degree of your likes and dislike, strengths and weakness in sentences
· Japanese culture - Discuss Japanese seasonal foods and drinks and compare with other countries
· Additional Kanji- use for the days of the week

· Characteristics – describe physical characteristics of yourself and others as well as to describe your own personality and those of others
· Grammar – identify adjectives conjugation
· Japanese culture – Check on Kawaii culture and Anime
· Additional Kanji- use for the body parts
· Describe daily schedule – how to indicate the time and your daily schedule
· Public Transportations – identify public transportations in Japanese and how to commute to and from school
· New communication styles – how to express for invitation and suggestion
· Japanese culture - Discuss on how Japanese people spend for their weekends
· Additional Kanji- use for the time and traveling

· Descriptions – how to describe your school, house, and room
· New type of verb - identify existence verb for animate and inanimate in Japanese
· Measure words – identify counters for large mechanized goods, birds, small animals, and long cylindrical objects
· Japanese culture: Discuss the difference between the National Holidays in Japan and the U.S.
· Additional Kanji- used for different kinds of people
· School Subjects – identify school subjects in Japanese
· New Grammar – describe your teachers and classes by applying new adjectives
· New sentence pattern – how to express "~want to " form in communication and express your feelings with a sentence pattern “ reason and result “
· Japanese culture - Discuss about after school activities in Japan
· Additional Kanji- commonly used in school

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