Year 9/10 Japanese

Semester 2 Outcomes

• By the end of Year 10, students use written and spoken Japanese to interact with peers, the teacher and other Japanese speakers to exchange information and opinions about personal interests and experiences.

• With support they share information about broader topics of interest, such as education, travel, sport, teenage life and popular culture.

• They apply appropriate conventions of pronunciation, rhythm and phrasing in speech to allow for others’ use of あいづち.

• Students read and write hiragana and known kanji, read katakana, and write familiar katakana words, including elongated vowels, double consonants and contractions.

• They analyse and extract information from a range of spoken and written texts and multimodal sources.

• They understand gist and predict the meaning of unfamiliar words and expressions from context, grammatical and vocabulary knowledge.

• Students create and present informative and imaginative texts, taking into account audience and purpose, such as by using て form and the plain form.

• They extend or qualify their message by using adverbs, and link ideas by using conjunctions.

• Students translate and interpret texts, explaining words and expressions that are difficult to translate and those with embedded cultural meanings.

• Students identify the functions of different scripts within texts: how hiragana is used for particles, conjunctions, and verb and adjective endings; katakana for borrowed words and some onomatopoeia; and kanji for nouns and verb and adjective stems

• They apply their understanding of conjugation to produce negative and past adjectives.

• Students identify and use a range of case particles such as か (or), より、 で (purpose/by) and に (location).

• They choose between using です/ますor plain form based on age, relationship, familiarity, context and text type, such as using plain form in a personal diary.

• They understand that languages change over time through contact with other languages and cultures, and identify the particular impact of technology and media on contemporary forms of communication, for example, the widespread adoption of English terms into Japanese.