Year 8 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 use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to assist in making meaning.

• They adjust their language to suit different contexts and situations, for example, the use of appropriate titles and forms of address, and respond in culturally appropriate ways to interactions with other Japanese speakers, such as bowing when greeting, and using appropriate eye contact.

• They explain how language and behaviour change according to participants, context and relationship, and that politeness and respect are expressed explicitly in Japanese through greetings, vocabulary, formulaic expressions and actions.