Japanese / Teaching and learning resources

HSC Preparation for Beginners and Continuers

New HSC vocabulary by topics (pdf - 100KB)
Prescribed vocabulary list for the HSC Japanese Continuers course organised in themes and topics.

New HSC Kanji booklet (pdf - 1.24MB)
Prescribed kanji list for the HSC Japanese Continuers course.

New HSC programming framework (pdf - 328KB)
A support document for the implementation of the Japanese Continuers Syllabus 2000.

Reading materials

	Mottainai Furoshiki (3 pages)
	Sakura (2 pages)
	Save Koalas (2 pages)
	Kangaroo Becomes One-day Policeman (2 pages)
	Japanese Athletes at the 2004 Olympic Games (7 pages)
	Baseball Articles (5 pages)
	Train Derailed in Hyogo, easy version (3 pages)
	Japanese proverbs about animals (3 pages)

Speaking activities

Guided Interviews (2 pages)

Reading, speaking and writing activities

Find your DEAI student (8 pages)
(Word document-97KB)

Global listening questions for the Wakatta! textbook listening items

(Word document-21 pages)
Anita Curtis has written these sample global questions for the listening items in Wakatta! so that students can practise global listening skills for HSC style tasks.

Websites

	HSC Examinations Download previous HSC examinations including marking guidelines.
	Japanese Syllabus Download the current Japanese Syllabuses, Support Documents and Specimen HSC exams
	NSW HSC Online - Japanese Sample HSC style tasks including listening items with sound files and script.