Year 7 Japanese

Semester 2 Outcomes

• students interact with one another and the teacher in classroom routines and activities, exchanging greetings, wishes and information about their personal and social worlds.

• They use gestures and formulaic expressions appropriately.

• They ask for assistance and clarification.

• They pronounce voiced and unvoiced sounds, long vowels, blends, double consonants and high-frequency loan words with developing rhythm and intonation.

• They read and write texts in hiragana and katakana, with some kanji for numbers, days of the week and high-frequency nouns, adjectives and verbs.

• Students identify key points of information in short predictable written, spoken and multimodal texts, understanding descriptions of people, objects, places and activities. Students use rehearsed language related to their personal world to convey information in both written and spoken texts.

• They produce short sentences involving nouns, common counter classifiers, and adjective, noun and verb predicates.

• They structure sentences using correct word order, and link information using conjunctions.

• Students recognise the nature and roles of the three Japanese scripts, understanding that hiragana represents the basic unit of Japanese sound, kanji represents meaning, and katakana is used for borrowed words

• They use the hiragana and katakana chart as a tool when writing and reading, recognising their systematic nature.