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

The Japanese Extension site is currently under review. New material is being developed for the 2009 HSC Prescribed Issues and Prescribed Texts and will be posted shortly.

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