Year 5 Japanese

Socialising

Informing

Creating

Translating

Reflecting

Understanding: System of Language

Language, Variation and Change

Role of Language and Change

Initiate interactions with the teacher and peers, using descriptive and expressive language to exchange information about their home, neighbourhood and local community.

 Participate in guided tasks related to organising displays, planning outings and conducting events such as performances, or activities such as building models and completing transactions in places such as a café or a market.

Gather and compare information and supporting details from a range of written, spoken, digital and multimodal texts, related to their personal and social worlds.

 Gather and convey information and ideas in different formats from a range of texts related to their personal and social worlds. 

 Share responses to characters, events and ideas in imaginative texts such as anime, folk stories and manga, making connections with personal experiences and feelings.

 Create or reinterpret, present or perform imaginative texts for different audiences, based on or adapted from events, characters or settings in other imaginative texts.

 Collect, use and explain Japanese words and expressions that do not translate easily into English. 

 Use visual, print or online dictionaries, word lists and pictures to translate simple familiar texts such as labels or captions.

 Compare ways of communicating in Australian and Japanese-speaking contexts and identify ways in which culture influences language use.

 Pronounce all the sounds in the kana chart, including voiced and unvoiced sounds (てんてん and まる), combined and long vowel sounds and double consonants, for example, きって and りょうり 

Understand that the sounds of hiragana and katakana are identical, even though the associated scripts are different. 

 Read and write all hiragana, including voiced, combined and long vowel sounds and double consonants using a hiragana chart for support.

 Understand the use of basic Japanese punctuation marks such as まる(。) and てん(、) 

Read and write words, phrases and sentences using hiragana and simple kanji.

 Use context-related vocabulary and develop and apply knowledge of the systematic nature of Japanese grammatical rules in simple spoken and written texts to generate language for a range of purposes.

 Build a metalanguage in Japanese to talk about language.

 Recognise the use of formulaic expressions, including the word order for writing the date, and textual features in familiar texts such as opening and closing emails, letters, postcards, or telephone conversations.

Notice differences in interaction styles in situations in Japanese and Australian contexts, for example, in buying something from a shop.

 Understand that there are large Japanese-speaking communities in Hawaii and Brazil, and that Japanese is taught in many countries, including those in the Asia-Pacific region and is changing constantly due to contact with other languages.

 Reflect on how their own and others’ language use is shaped by and reflects communities’ ways of thinking and behaving and may be differently interpreted by others.