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Years 7 and 8 Japanese

The nature of the learners Students are beginning their study of Japanese and typically have had little prior exposure to the language and associated culture. Many will have learnt an additional language in primary school, while some have proficiency …

Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Japanese | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Japanese Years 7 and 8

By the end of Year 8, 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, …

ACLJAC001

Interact with peers and the teacher to socialise and to exchange information about self, personal worlds and immediate environment, and to express feelings, likes and dislikes, using appropriate gestures[Key concepts: self, family, home, interests; Key …

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ACLJAC005

Present factual information about aspects of Japanese and Australian lifestyles in spoken, written and digital forms[Key concepts: community, cultural practice, personal world; Key processes: composing, designing, presenting, reporting, comparing]

Elaborations ScOT Terms

Elaboration (2) ACLJAC001

exchanging personal details with Japanese-speaking peers via online or virtual forums, for example, providing name, age, school, and language(s) spoken at home

Elaboration (4) ACLJAC001

describing aspects of their personal worlds, for example, friends, family, pets, teachers, school and interests, using expressions such as noun は　adjective　です。わたしの　ともだちは　おもしろい　です。

Elaboration ACLJAC005

creating and presenting a profile of a well-known Japanese or Australian person, including details, for example, とし、かぞく、 and 好(す)きなこと such as 食(た)べもの、スポーツ、かもく、どうぶつ

Elaboration (2) ACLJAC005

reporting on events and activities in their immediate environment or personal worlds, such as through a personal blog, digital post, formal speech, diagrams, charts or illustrated schedules, for example, きのう　サッカーの　しあい　でした。わたしの　がっこうの　チームは　かちました。

Elaboration ACLJAC009

creating written or digital bilingual resources to support their language learning, such as captions for photo stories or displays, glossaries or personal Japanese–English dictionaries, with examples and explanations of terms or expressions that have …

Elaboration (2) ACLJAC010

reflecting on aspects of the experience of using Japanese that highlight intercultural differences relating to social and communicative behaviours, for example, the use of personal space and body language, and ways of accepting or refusing an offer

Elaboration (4) ACLJAC010

developing language for expressing personal reactions to and feelings about intercultural experience, for example, いいですね。あれ？へえすごい！びっくりした！すみません。

Elaboration (2) ACLJAC011

preparing a digital class profile to exchange with Japanese-speaking students, showing the cultural backgrounds, interests and personalities of each class member using images, captions and symbols

Elaboration (3) ACLJAC011

creating a print or digital personal ‘cultural ID profile’ to exchange with Japanese-speaking peers, making decisions about what points of information will be of most interest, for example, by creating a family tree with associated links to cultural connections, …

Elaboration (17) ACLJAU014

building vocabulary that relates to familiar environments such as the classroom, family and personal world and that can be used for cross-curricular content learning

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