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Beginners Course | Continuers Course | Extension Course | Background Speakers Course

The 2009 HSC Study Guide developed for students by NSW HSC Online is now available.

Beginners Course

• Topics
  • Family life, home and neighbourhood
  • People, places and communities
  • Education and work
  • Friends, recreation and pastimes
  • Holidays, travel and tourism
  • Future plans and aspirations
• Skills
  • Speaking
  • Listening
  • Reading
  • Writing
• How to approach the exam
  • The Oral Examination
  • The Written Examination

Continuers Course

• The Individual
  • Personal World
  • Daily Life
  • Leisure
  • Future Plans
• Japanese-speaking Communities
  • Travelling in Japan
  • Living in Japan
  • Cultural Life
• The Changing World
  • The World of Work
  • Current Issues
• Skills
  • Speaking
  • Reading and Responding
  • Writing
  • Listening and Responding
• How to Approach the Exam
  • Advice

Extension Course

• Prescribed issues
  • The impact of change on society
  • Relationships
  • The search for personal identity
• Prescribed text
• Activities
  • Speaking
  • Listening
  • Writing
  • Prescribed texts
    • Activities
    • HSC-style tasks
  • Related texts
• Advice

Background Speakers Course

• Themes
  • The individual and the community
  • Youth culture
  • National identity
  • Global issues
• Skills
  • Spoken exchanges in Japanese
  • Reading and responding
  • Writing in Japanese
• How to approach the exam
  • Spoken exchanges in Japanese advice
  • Reading and responding advice
  • Writing in Japanese advice
  • Listening and responding advice