10 Japanese
10JPN Course DescriptionTeacher in Charge: Ian Forlong.
PrerequisitesOpen Entry
Year 10 Japanese is an extension to the introductory course taught in Year 9. It is a language acquisition course, where students learn to use simple language to greet and sustain interaction with others in Japanese. Students exchange personal information about themselves and their families, talk about their likes and dislikes, tell the time and say what they do in their leisure time. They are introduced to the Hiragana alphabet and simple Kanji.
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Course Overview
Semester A
Topics:
Self introduction (Name, nationality, age, birthday)
Likes and Dislikes
Friends and Families
Assessment: Listening and Speaking
Semester B
Topics:
My Town
Daily Routine
Food and Drink
Assessment: Reading and Writing
Pathway
In addition to careers such as interpreter, teacher, or translator, a language is a useful addition to any future pathway. Marketing, sales, law, medicine, health and lifestyle, and diplomatic careers all benefit from an additional worldview.
Career PathwaysSpeech-Language Therapist, Chef, Recycler/Dismantler, Historian, Audiologist/Audiometrist, Flight Attendant, Counsellor, Minister of Religion, Trainer, Journalist, Interpreter, Musician, Editor, Corrections Officer, Data Entry Operator/Transcriptionist, Foreign Policy Officer, Radio Presenter, Workplace Relations Adviser, Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Importer/Exporter, Immigration Officer, Kaiwhakaako Māori, Translator
Contributions and Equipment/StationeryMaterials fee: $15