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Japanese / Year 7 and 8 / Understanding language and culture / Understanding systems of language
Curriculum content descriptions
develop knowledge of, and use structures and features of the Japanese grammatical and writing systems to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts (AC9LJ8EU02)
Elaborations
- understanding the origins of Japanese script (kanji from China; hiragana was formed by simplifying the form of kanji, while katakana was formed using a part of kanji) and that modern Japanese uses all 3 scripts depending on word origins and context
- understanding and using a range of particles to perform different functions, including sentence-ending particles such as か and ね
- understanding that each individual kanji represents meaning as well as sound, for example, 日 (‘sun’, ‘day’), and that some kanji characters come from pictographs, for example, 山
- understanding how to use い and な adjectives in the present and past tense, positive and negative, in basic sentences, for example, たのしい、たのしかった、 たのしくない、 ゆうめいな、 ゆうめいじゃない
- understanding the use of furigana as a tool to support reading, and romaji to type in Japanese
- understanding and using basic Japanese punctuation marks such as a まる (。)、てん (、), katakana long vowel mark (ー), and basic writing conventions involved when using げんこうようし
- applying the principles of basic stroke order to write all kana and high-frequency kanji such as numbers, days of the week, family members, and basic adjectives and verbs
- reading and writing all hiragana and katakana including voiced, contracted and blended sounds; understanding the systematic nature of the kana chart and Japanese grammar to support learning
- using basic types of sentence structures in Japanese, understanding that word order of noun phrases is flexible as long as particle use is correct, and sentences end with a verb/copula: subject は noun です。, subject は adjective です。, subject は object/place を／に verb ます
- using a range of familiar verbs in the present and past tense, including both positive and negative, for example, 行きます、見ません、たべました、ききませんでした
- creating cohesion, flow and adding detail by using conjunctions そして、それから、でも, adverbs まい日、ときどき、とても and linking nouns and adjectives おいしくて、母と
- counting from 1–100 and using some basic Japanese counters such as 人、才、月、日
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Sentences (Grammar), Japanese script, Kanji, Language conventions