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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 text
  • Fushigina kikai (A Strange Machine)
  • RENET
  • Shiteiseki (A reserved seat)
  • Meiwaku? Ashidematoi? (A burden? A drag?)
• Issues
  • Impact of technology
  • Group versus the individual
  • Overcoming personal difficulties
• Skills
  • Speaking
  • Analysis of prescribed text
  • Response to prescribed text
  • Writing
  • Listening (school assessment)
• How to Approach the Exam
  • Advice

Background Speakers' Course

• The Individual and the Community
• Youth Culture
• National Identity
• Global Issues
• Skills
  • Speaking
  • Reading and Responding
  • Writing
  • Listening and Responding
• How to Approach the Exam
  • Advice