Japanese

In year one there are six areas of study:

• Introducing Oneself – spoken assessment
• Talking about daily life – listening assessment
• Shopping – reading assessment
• At a restaurant – role play assessment
• Booking a Hotel – written assessment
• Buying a train ticket – reading and written response assessment

Japanese GCSE is a QCA recognised qualification that will develop learners’ 4 skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing.

This QCA recognised qualification will develop learners’ 4 skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing.

The GCSE course is organised into 5 themes:

• 1. Identity and Culture (yourself, your town, festivals in Japan and in your country, family etc)
• 2. Local area, holiday and travel
• 3. School
• 4. Future aspirations, work and study
• 5. International and global dimension (international events and environmental issues)

As well as your lessons with your teacher, you will have a timetabled workshop each week in smaller groups to focus on speaking and listening.

At the end of the course you will take four exams, which will test your listening, reading, writing, translation and speaking skills.

Knowledge of a language as distinctive and different as Japanese will make you stand out over people who can only speak one. It will make students more employable. The service industries, business, manufacturing, banking, finance, law, journalism need people who can speak more than one language.

Each year some students go on to study Japanese at university. Others have been able to access a year abroad in Japan as part of a degree in another subject or gone on to work in Japan as graduates.

Students go on a class trip to a Japan Cultural Festival at the University of Lancashire to experience various traditional and modern aspects of Japanese culture

Course Specification