By the end of Year 10, students use written and spoken Japanese to exchange information and opinions about personal interests and experiences. They share, create and interpret information about broader topics of interest, such as shopping, eating at a restaurant, fashion, describing people, homestay life and directions. When collaborating in shared tasks and activities, they use set phrases and modelled language to transact, guide, describe and make arrangements. Students read and write hiragana, katakana and known kanji, and learn how to read and write approximately fifty more. They analyse and extract information from a range of spoken and written texts and audiovisual sources, and utilise language to show general and specific understanding. They predict the meaning of unfamiliar words and expressions from context, grammatical and vocabulary knowledge, as well as their growing kanji repertoire. Students create and present informative and personal texts, taking into account audience, purpose and text type. Students make more connections between language and culture, and understand how they influence each other.

Students use a wide range of texts such as textbooks, teacher-generated materials and online resources. Their learning is enriched by exposure to a range of authentic texts in Japanese, such as websites, films, stories, songs, television programs, advertisements and magazines.

• Essays

• Role plays

• Letters

• Interpretive viewing, listening and reading tasks

• End of semester exams

• Obento Supreme Student Book and Workbook (Retain from Year 9)

• Japanese dictionary (Kodansha Japanese-English / English-Japanese or Oxford Beginner’s Japanese Dictionary recommended)

• Exercise book (retain from Year 9)

• Display folder

• Pencil/Mechanical pencil

• Highlighters/different coloured pens/pencils

• Eraser

• Sharpener

• Headphones

• VCE Japanese Second Language

• VCE Japanese First Language