This course integrates the core strands of language knowledge, communication and cultural knowledge. This course consolidates topics studied from year 9 and 10. Students should be able to understand more complex language and communicate beyond the immediate context e.g.past and future events and can understand and produce a variety of text types.

When:

Semester One

Subject Area(s)

Japanese

NCEA L1 - Students who have completed Year 9 and 10 Japanese. Students need to have knowledge of the hiragana and katakana script to enter at this stage.

This course would normally be a full year course. However, it is divided into two semesters. Students completing semester two would need to have completed semester one.

Topics covered in semester one are as follows:
1. Personal History - Milestones in your peoples’ lives; growing up; the uses of katakana.
2. Languages and how they are studied; nationalities; where you were born and grew up.
3. Popular fast food in NZ and Japan; healthy fast food.
4. Shopping - Where you shop and why?; department stores in Japan.
5. What you do in your free time; making, accepting and declining invitations.

Requirements

Practical Components - Spoken presentation to be recorded
$20 for Language Perfect for vocabulary learning. (optional)
Textbook/workbook- Iitomo 3/4 textbook and student workbook ($30)tbc. These can be issued by teacher however, these must be returned promptly at the end of the course or they will also be invoiced. The student activity book can be ordered by the student directly, by their school or through the teacher. If ordered through the online teacher this will be invoiced to the student (as the student writes in this and gets to keep the student activity book).

In this Japanese course the participating students become a community where they can share common interests to do with the Japanese culture. Anyone wanting to take this course will need to fully participate in ongoing online discussion, (on our online space) or in the online session. Learning how to communicate in Japanese is a key part of the course.

Assessment

In Semester One-A choice of one of the following internal assessments
Achievement Standard

AS90894
Give a spoken presentation in Japanese that communicates a personal response (spoken presentation)
Credits 4
Internal

AS90897
Write a variety of text types in Japanese on areas of most immediate relevance
Creedits 5
Internal

About the Teacher

Sara Lake has been teaching for seventeen years. The past six years she has taught level 1 Japanese online through NetNZ. She is a registered teacher at Marian College. Subjects she teaches are Japanese, Social Studies and Tourism. Mrs Lake lived in Japan for a year as an AFS student and worked as a Japanese speaking guide for nine years prior to becoming a teacher. She loves playing touch, reading and walking her dogs.

Enrol now:

http://www.netnz.org/enrolment/