Year 6 Japanese

Socialising

Informing

Creating

Translating

Reflecting

Understanding: System of Language

Language Variation and Change

Role of Language and Change

Initiate interactions with others, using descriptive and expressive language to exchange information and relate experiences about free time and to show interest in and respect for them.

 Negotiate an invitation for a shared experience.

Collaborate with peers in guided tasks to plan events or activities to showcase their progress in learning and using Japanese, developing projects or budgeting for a shared event.

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

Convey information, ideas and opinions related to their personal and social worlds, selecting appropriate written, spoken, digital and multimodal texts, to suit specific audiences and contexts. 

 Share and compare key messages in imaginative texts such as the moral of a folk story, ideas or values expressed in songs or characterization in anime and compare their treatment across cultural contexts and time.

Create or reinterpret, present or perform alternative versions of imaginative texts for different audiences, adapting stimulus, theme, characters, places, ideas and events to suit different modes or contexts.

Demonstrate and explain elements of non-verbal Japanese communication that require interpretation for non-Japanese speakers, such as hand gestures, eye contact and counting systems.

Experiment with bilingual dictionaries and/or online translators, considering the relative advantages or limitations of each resource.

Engage in intercultural experiences, describing aspects of language and culture that are unfamiliar and discussing their own reactions and adjustments

 Engage with authentic spoken language, recognising how words blend.

Understand the relationship between sounds, words and meaning such as noticing that certain combinations of two moras make one rhythm unit (foot).

 Recognise and make meaning of some single and whole word katakana with the support of a katakana chart.

Apply the basic principles of stroke order to write all hiragana and high-frequency kanji. 

Write simple texts using hiragana and kanji on familiar topics. 

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.

Apply formulaic expressions and understand the significance of textual features in texts such as letters or telephone conversations and how the composition of texts reflects cultural values.

 Understand that language use reflects respect and social distance such as expressing familiarity with friends by using first names instead of surnames or showing respect for authority figures

Explore how the Japanese language is both influenced by and in turn influences other languages and cultures, for example, in relation to food, music, sport and technology.

Understand that language and culture are integral to the nature of identity and communication.