Year 10 Japanese
Subject Description
Teacher in Charge: Mrs J. McMillan.
A willingness to try new things Subject skills include, but are not limited to: Describe themselves and others; Recognise, ask about, and express ability and inability; Enquire about the weather and comment on it; Demonstrate a knowledge about housing and annual events in Japan.
Subject Overview
Term 1
The students learn to recognise and respond to details in spoken and written Japanese. They learn to ask about, express, and respond to comments about events and ongoing actions, referring to themselves. They can also talk about the frequency of these activities and events.
Term 2
The students learn to initiate and maintain short conversations. They are able to ask for and respond to simple directions. They learn about housing in Japan as well as another cultural aspect of their choice.
Term 3
The students learn to seek and give information through conversation in a range of everyday situations. The students learn to recognise and express amounts and quantities. They learn to ask for, give, and decline permission.
Term 4
The students should be able to write hiragana and katakana accurately at this stage in order to be ready for Level 1 NCEA Japanese. They learn to compare and contrast people, places and things. They also learn to ask about and express wishes.
Pathway
Pathway Tags
Chef, Historian, Flight Attendant, Counsellor, Minister of Religion, Journalist, Interpreter, Musician, Editor, Data Entry Operator/Transcriptionist, Foreign Policy Officer, Radio Presenter, Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Importer/Exporter, Immigration Officer, Kaiwhakaako Māori, Translator, Private Teacher/Tutor, Secondary School Teacher, Teacher Aide, Tour Guide, Travel Agent/Adviser, Intelligence Officer, Career Consultant,