Sample course outline Japanese: Second Language ATAR Year 11 – Unit 1 (Daily life) – Week Key teaching points Learning contexts and topics . Students reflect on their home life and explore homestay experiences, The individual: My including exchanging information about their personal and family profile, hobbies and interests. They describe typical rules and routines of home and school life. Text types and textual conventions discuss use of borrowed from other languages, abbreviations, body language and gestures account, chart, discussion, email, film/TV program (excerpts), interview, table. Linguistic resources Vocabulary introduce vocabulary related to the My Grammar plain forms (verbs and adjectives: plain form, present/past, affirmative/negative) permission expressing you must not permission/expressing you may giving advice examples of actions within a context/expressing alternative states your experience 1–4 (the one) adverbs how an action is performed how something changes how you change something. and writing systems Intercultural understandings social customs within the context of hosting a guest school and friends e.g. politeness conventions, ways of showing affection, respect, turn-taking, gender relationships, friendship groups. Language learning and communication strategies reduce anxiety when trying to comprehend spoken text make/take and summarise listen for gist. Dictionaries use a bilingual dictionary. - Have a conversation with an exchange student. Task 1: Oral Communication
Sample course outline Japanese: Second Language – ATAR Year 11 Unit 1 – (Daily life) Week Key teaching points 1–4 Learning contexts and topics The individual: My . Students reflect on their home life and explore homestay experiences, including exchanging information about their personal and family profile, hobbies and interests. They describe typical rules and routines of home and school life. Text types and textual conventions discuss use of borrowed from other languages, abbreviations, body language and gestures account, chart, discussion, email, film/TV program (excerpts), interview, table. Linguistic resources Vocabulary introduce vocabulary related to the My Grammar plain forms (verbs and adjectives: plain form, present/past, affirmative/negative) permission you must not permission/expressing you may advice examples of actions within a context/expressing alternative states your experience (the one) adverbs how an action is performed how something changes how you change something. and writing systems Intercultural understandings social customs within the context of hosting a guest school and friends e.g. politeness conventions, ways of showing affection, respect, turn-taking, gender relationships, friendship groups. Language learning and communication strategies reduce anxiety when trying to comprehend spoken text make/take and summarise listen for gist. Dictionaries use a bilingual dictionary. Task 1: Oral Communication - Have a conversation with an exchange student. giving expressing