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WS01 - お弁当プロジェクト(Obento project)

Languages, Japanese, Years 7 and 8 (Year 7 entry)

By the end of Year 8, students use Japanese language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Japanese or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts, and demonstrate understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices. They use some familiar katakana and kanji, and hiragana, with support. 

 

Students approximate Japanese sound patterns, intonation and rhythms, and recognise the relationship between spoken and written forms. They demonstrate understanding that Japanese has conventions and rules for scripts, non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Japanese and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Japanese language is connected with culture and identity, and how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity. 

 

 

 

 


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Communicating meaning in Japanese | Mediating meaning in and between languages

AC9LJ8EC06

create spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts for familiar contexts and purposes using appropriate vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures and some textual conventions, and hiragana and katakana with support of the chart and some familiar kanji

Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language

AC9LJ8EU02

develop knowledge of, and use structures and features of the Japanese grammatical and writing systems to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts

Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language

AC9LJ8EU03

compare Japanese language structures and features with English, using familiar metalanguage

Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

AC9LJ8EU04

recognise how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), beliefs, attitudes and values

Annotations

 

1. Uses different Japanese scripts and katakana for borrowed words. 

 

2. Writes simple sentences using particles, nouns and verbs. 

 

3. Demonstrates understanding of word order and the particle で. 

4. Creates text (the script of a dialogue) to model a conversation about an obento with a friend. 

 

5. Incorporates simple questions and requests into the script. 

 

6. Uses から in a sentence to justify choice. 

 

7. Conjugates the い adjective to link ideas. 

 

8. Conveys cultural understanding by deflecting praise, using appropriate language choices, in いいえ、いいえ、かんたんです。

9. Demonstrates understanding of the sustainable nature of obento and relates this to Japanese traditions and values. 

 

10. Compares Japanese and Australian lunchtime practices and reflects on own actions and the overall meaning of an obento. 

11. Explains, with examples, Japanese words that are difficult to translate into English. 

 

12. Understands Japanese values and the idea of deflecting praise. 

 

13. Explains the use of ‘o’ in ‘obento’, recognising that it is an honorific prefix, and compares this with English. 

 

14. Identifies a borrowed word and compares it to the English original, demonstrating understanding of the Japanese sound system. 

15. Labels own handmade obento appropriately, using hiragana and katakana. 

 

16. Demonstrates understanding of obento culture in own obento, such as colour balance, healthy ingredients and use of かわいい features, for example, shapes and bear character.