Japanese Class Ⅸ
One Paper 3Hours
- Aims and Objectives
To develop the following skills:
【Listening】
To enable the learner to recognize familiar words and very basic phrases concerning self, family and immediate concrete surroundings when people speak slowly, clearly, repeatedly and using gestures.
【Reading】
To enable the learnerto understand familiar names, words and very simple sentences by using visual aids, for example in catalogues, on posters and notices.To enable the learnerto grasp the main ideas and/or some facts from simple texts concerning self, family and immediate concrete surroundings.
【Spoken Interaction】
To enable the learnerto respond in a simple way, provided the other person is prepared to repeat or rephrase things at a slower speed and help in formulating what he/she is trying to say. To enable the learnerto ask and answer simple questions in situations of immediate needs or on familiar topics, using the vocabulary and phrasesalready learnt.
【Spoken Production】
To enable the learnerto use simply phrases and sentences to describe self, family and immediate concrete surroundings.
【Writing】
To enable the learnerto write short, simple postcards, for example, holiday greetings. To enable the learnerto fill in the forms with personal details, for example enteringname, nationality and address on a registration form. To enable the learnerto write short and very simple passages concerning self, family and immediate concrete surroundings.
【Culture】
Culture is to be accessed through the language being taught. Aimis tohelp the students achieve socio-linguisticcompetence, cross-cultural understanding and awareness of their own culture, as well as that of Japan. It is to be realized that not all teaching about culture implies behavioral change, but merely an awareness and tolerance in the learner for the cultural influences affecting one’s own and others’ behaviors’.
2. Course Contents (marks 100, suggested periods180)
※ClassⅨ 6～7Periods×30Weeks=180～210 Periods（1Periods＝35～40minutes）
（A）Script (marks 15, suggested periods15)
25 kanji (classⅦ): Both reading and writing to be tested.
22 kanji (classⅧ,L1～L4): Only reading to be tested.
（B）Grammar: (marks 30, suggested periods90)
Adjectives and verbs in present and past tenses, making comparisons, indicatingplaces, and expressingone’s desires.
（C）Writing skills:(marks 20, suggested periods20)
Various application forms, invitation cards, thank you cards, E-mails, postcards.（marks 5*2）
Guided paragraph writing on one of the following the suggested topics:“My daily life”, “My family”, “My school”in about10 to 12 lines.No marks to be deducted for spelling mistakes.（marks 10）
（D）Translation skills(marks 15, suggested periods15)
Englishinto Japanese (mark5*1)
Japanese into English (mark5*2)
(No marks to be deducted for spelling mistakes).
（E）Reading Comprehension: (marks20, suggested periods20)
various application forms, invitation cards, thank you cards, E-mails, postcards.（marks 5*3）
Simple answers to be formulated on simple passages related to everyday- life situations. （marks 10）
（F）Culture: (suggested periods20)
Efforts should be made to supply basic information about Japanese culture in general and daily life using visual aids and authenticresources. Efforts should be made to let students think about culture in terms of perspectives, practicesand products (e.g. perspectives such as beliefs, values, institutions; practices such as customs, habits, dress, foods, leisure; products such as literature, folklore, art, music, artifacts). Cross-culturalawarenessis not to be tested but to be evaluated through teacher’s observation and learner’s work during lessons.
（G）Prescribed book
MinnanoNihongo Indian-edition1-1(L1～L13)：textbook cum workbook, grammar note, audio CD
Japanese Class Ⅹ
One Paper 3Hours
1. Aims and Objectives
To develop the following skills:
【Listening】
To enable the learnerto recognizes familiar words and very basic phrases/sentences concerning self, family and immediate concrete surroundings when people speak slowly and clearly.
【Reading】
To enable the learnerto understand familiar names, words and simple sentencesfor example in catalogues, on posters and notices.To enable the learnerto understand main ideas and/or some facts from the related texts concerning self, family and immediate concrete surroundings.
【Spoken Interaction】
To enable the learnertointeract in a simple way provided the other person is prepared to repeat or rephrase things at a slower speed and help in formulating what he/she is trying to say. To enable the learnerto ask and answer simple questions in situations of immediate needs or on familiar topics, using the vocabulary and phrasesalready learnt.
【Spoken Production】
To enable the learnerto use simply phrases and sentences to describeself, family and immediate concrete surroundings
【Writing】
To enable the learnerto write short, simple postcards, for example sending holiday greetings. To enable the learnerto fill in the forms with personal details, for example entering my name, nationality and address on a registration form. To enable the learnerto writesimple compositions/passageson day-to-day topics using vocabulary and expression learnt in ClassⅨ,Ⅹ.
【Culture】
Access the culture through the language being taught. Aimis tohelp the students achieve socio-linguisticcompetence, cross-cultural understanding and awareness of their own culture, as well as that of Japan. It is to be recognized that that not all teaching about culture implies behavioral change, but merely an awareness and tolerance of the cultural influences affecting one’s own and others’ behaviors’.
- Course Contents (marks 100, suggested periods180)
※ClassⅩ6～7Periods×30Weeks=180～210 Periods（1Periods＝35～40minutes）
（A）Script (marks 15, suggested periods15)
25 kanji (classⅦ): Both reading and writing to be tested.
40 kanji (classⅧ) are required to read only.
（B）Grammar:(marks 30, suggested periods90)
Verb conjugations (te-form, nai-form, verb-dictionary form, ta-form), expression of assumption and adjectiveconjugations.
（C）Writing skills:(marks 20, suggested periods20)
Various application forms, invitation cards, thank you cards, E-mails, postcards.（marks 5*2）
Guided paragraph writing on one of the following the suggested topics: “Memories/ An account of My Travel”, “My Dreams” in about 10 to 12 lines.No marks to be deducted for spelling mistakes.（marks 10）
（D）Translation skills(marks 15, suggested periods15)
English into Japanese (mark5*1)
Japanese into English (mark5*2)
(No marks to be deducted for spelling mistakes).
（E）Reading Comprehension:(marks20, suggested periods20)
Various application forms, invitation cards, thank you cards, E-mails, postcards.（marks 5*3）
Answers to be formulated on passages related to everyday life situations. （marks 10）
（F）Culture: (suggested periods20)
Efforts should be made to supply basic information about Japanese culture in general and daily life using visual aids and authenticresources, also, to let students think about culture in terms of perspectives, practicesand products (e.g. perspectives such as beliefs, values, institutions; practices such as customs, habits, dress, foods, leisure; products such as literature, folklore, art, music, artifacts). Cross-culturalawarenessis not to be tested but to be evaluated through teacher’s observation and learner’s work during lessons.
（G）prescribed book
MinnanoNihongo Indian-edition1-2(L14～L25)：textbook cum workbook, grammar note, audio CD
For Reference :Japanese Class Ⅸand Ⅹ
- Teaching methodology :
To develop the following skills:
1）Emphasis to be laid on creating an interest in Japan and its culture.
2）Interpreting the information with the context of Japanese culture and in comparison with the learner’s own culture is suggested.
3）Emphasis to be laid on interactive language teaching using techniques such as role play, quiz, pair work, interview etc.
4）Visual aids like flash cards, pictures, illustrations and audio-lingual materials are to be used.
5）For a learner who begins to learn Japanese at classⅨ, firstlyneeds to review Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. (Review of Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji to be done for the benefit of those learners who begin to learn Japanese at class IX.)
6）Schema building:Schema theory is based on the idea that our past experiences allow us to create mental frameworks which help us make sense of newexperience.
7）Focus on strategies: Strategies are the mental and communicative procedures learners use in order to learn and use language. Common classroom strategies include selective listening, skimming, and scanning, classifying, brainstorming, practicing, memorizing, and reflecting.
8）Personalization: Learning is thus made more meaningful and real, and learners are able to make systematic connections between their own lives and the life in the classroom.
9）Form and meaning; need to dramatize for learners the fact that effective language use involves achieving harmony between form and function. (wakarinikuinodewanaika?)
10）Where ever possible, language use opportunity such as, interaction with Japanese school students by way of communication through E-mail, internet based video-conferencing, visitor session (interaction of the school students with native Japanese) etc, is suggested This would pave the way for future exchange programme between school students in the two countries.
- Remarks on prescribed book（MinnanoNihongo Indian-edition1-1,1-2）
1) Prescribed books are in Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. No need to learn all kanjis in the text books. Only the kanji that are mentioned in the syllabus are to be learnt. (ClassⅨand ClassⅩ) Kanji list is as follows.
ClassⅦ(MOMO)-kanji 25 ※（ ）JLPT Level 3
日 本 人 山 （田）、川、一、二、三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 上 中 下
月 火 水 木 金 土
Class-kanjiⅧ(Sakura)40 ※（ ）JLPT Level,2 and 3 re-learn
Reading only 40
L1：犬 牛 馬 (鳥) 魚 (5)
L2：口 目 耳 大きい 小さい (5)
L3：かん(字) (正)しい 百てん 1(課) 学校 日本語 (6)
L4：花 雨 車 (石) (林) (森) (6)
L5：nothing
L6：年 今 何 時 週 間 分 (正)月 一月 (8)
L7：男 女 子ども 先生 八年生 (5)
L8：見 休 行 来 休みの日 (5)
2) ClassⅥ、Ⅶ、Ⅷtextbook cover 60% vocabulary( 534 vocabulary ) contained in the prescribed books(Minnano Nihongo 1-1,1-2)（875 vocabulary）
3) ClassⅥ、Ⅶ、Ⅷtextbook cover 80% sentence patterns 80% contained in the prescribed books(Minnano Nihongo 1-1,1-2)
4) Practice of writing skills,translation skills, comprehension test, kanji practice are included in the teachers` reference book. (as per plan)
5.) CulturalResources
Japanese general culture
**In Photo/Pictures, you can search for 515 photo resources and 7303 picture resources by Parts of Speech and Sentence Pattern for use in Japanese language teaching.
Japanese culture and Daily life
- Structure of the lessons:
1)Introduction of new vocabulary in each lesson.
2)Understanding the situation and function of sentence pattern through short conversation in the textbook.
3)Introduction of new sentence patters in the situation using practice A.
4)Practice related to the lesson using practice B and C.
5)Practice shadowing, skit or role play using short conversation in the textbook.
6)Exercise using Questions in each lesson.(Questions include listening comprehension, reading comprehension, grammar practice)
7)Learning kanji in each lesson using reference book.
- Mode of Assessment :
1)Active class participation
2)Periodical written tests
3)Periodical dictation tests
4)Conversation tests
5)Simple reading and listening comprehension tests
6)Writing short notes on simple topics and various forms.
7)Cross-culturalawarenessnot to be tested but to be evaluated through teacher’s observation and learner’sclass work
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