Japanese - Year 8

Mandatory: Yes

Duration: Full year

Description

Students study a Japanese course in Year 8, so students can be exposed to a foreign language and broaden their cultural understandings. The course will provide students the opportunity to work with different modes of communication and with different types of text genres. The program will be offered over one semester and will be divided into two parts: Language studies and Cultural studies. Students will learn a variety of topics including: Hiragana writing, greetings, introducing themselves, expressing their state of wellbeing, describing friends and family, describing routine events and leisure activities and cultural studies. Students will be encouraged to use specific elements of ICT, especially when researching and presenting information about the Japanese culture and way of life.