Japanese Language Year 10 and VCE

Senior School pathway

Great reasons for learning Japanese

Exchange opportunities Year 10

Year 10

Japanese

Long Term Exchange 5 months

Year 10 and Year11 Unit 1-2 Japanese

Japan Study Tour 3 weeks

CCG Graduate Language assistant in Japan 3 months or more

Unit 3-4 Japanese

Career examples

to people of all backgrounds in our multicultural nation.

• Enjoy the great food and culture of Japan, cooking lessons and cultural excursions

• Be rewarded with big bonus VCE enter score points at Year12

Year 10 and VCE

• Visit Naga High School in Japan on a 3 week school trip in Year 10-11

Acceleration Criteria Students who have lived in Japan for up to 6 years or are Japanese background speakers.

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Teacher English as a second language

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Hotel manager / hospitality

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Translator / Interpreter

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Border Force Officer / Police officer

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• Gain inter-cultural understanding and relate

Tourism / Tour guide

Employability skills •

Communication

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Cultural understanding

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Problem identification and solution

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Planning and organisation

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Responding constructively to the opinions of others

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multitasking

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Critical thinking

• Gain inter-cultural understanding and relate to people of all backgrounds in our multicultural nation.

• Go to Japan as a Long term exchange student for 5 months in Year 10

• Go to Japan after graduated from Christian College as part of our gap year exchange program

• Host a friend from our Sister school Naga High School in Japan

• Join a fun group of students who can speak another language and love travelling

• Become a skilled and confident communicator, ready for work, travel and making friends around the world

• Enhance your career prospects in almost any field of work links to Asia

or industry with

Course overview You prepare yourself to be a global citizen who has effective language skills in Japanese and an intercultural understanding and awareness. The topics covered in this course are related to your immediate life such as home, school and personal life. You learn how those things are similar to or different from your own life. The level of language skills are in the transition stage to a more advanced level for VCE Japanese. The course also provides you various opportunities to learn Japanese in Japan. Those opportunities include a shortterm Japan trip, a long-term exchange student program. You are required to have completed the Year 9 Japanese prior to undertaking this course.

Year 10 高校一年生

Year 11

Year 12

高校二年生

高校三年生

Unit1 Unit2 In the Year 10 Japanese course, you prepare yourself to be a global citizen who has effective language skills in Japanese and an intercultural understanding and awareness. The topics covered in this course are related to your immediate life such as home, school and personal life. You learn how those things are similar to or different from your own life. The level of language skills are in the transition stage to a more advanced level for VCE Japanese. You use formulaic and modelled language in classroom interactions to carry out transactions and to share and covey information in familiar contexts. The course also provides you various opportunities to learn Japanese in Japan. Those opportunities include a shortterm Japan trip, a long-term exchange student program and an international high school forum in Wakayama.

You are required to have completed the Year 9 Japanese course prior to undertaking this course.

Unit3 Unit4

In VCE Unit 1, students develop an understanding of the Japanese language and culture/s through the study of three subtopics from the prescribed themes: Hobbies and Leisure Activities, The Changes in Family Life and Family and Pets. On completion of this unit students should develop the ability to exchange meaning in a spoken interaction in Japanese, interpret information from two texts on the same subtopic presented in Japanese, and respond in writing in Japanese and in English. They also should be able to present information, concepts and ideas in writing in Japanese on the selected subtopic and for a specific audience and purpose.

In VCE Unit 3, students investigate the way Japanese speakers interpret and express ideas and negotiate and persuade

In VCE Unit 2, students build on their linguistic and cultural understanding through the study of three subtopics from the prescribed themes: Experiences of Schooling, Innovations in technology and Impact of technological change, and the internet and social media. On completion of this unit students should be able to respond in writing in Japanese to spoken, written or visual texts, to analyse and use information from three different kinds of text types to produce an extended written response in Japanese. They also should be able to explain information, ideas and concepts orally in Japanese to a specific audience about an aspect of culture within communities where Japanese is spoken.

In VCE Unit 4, students investigate aspects of culture through the study of two subtopics from the prescribed themes and topics: Traditional and contemporary culture and caring for the environment. On completion of this unit the student should be able to share information, ideas and opinions in a spoken exchange in Japanese, analyse information from written, spoken and viewed texts for use in a written response in Japanese. They also should be able to present information, concepts and ideas in evaluative or persuasive writing on an issue in Japanese.

in Japanese through the study of three subtopics from the prescribed themes and topics: Future plan and employment, Living in rural and urban areas of Japan and travelling in Japan. On completion of this unit students should be able to participate in a spoken exchange in Japanese to resolve a personal issue, to interpret information from texts and write responses in Japanese as well as to express ideas in a personal, informative or imaginative piece of writing in Japanese.