Greetings and Hiragana
First contact in Japanese: greeting, introducing yourself, and reading hiragana.
- Hiragana: the basic 46 characters
- Greetings by time of day
- はじめまして and self-introduction
NSW Japanese Years 7-10 (Stage 4, Year 7 first 100 hours) - greetings, hiragana, school and family - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Japanese Year 7” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
First contact in Japanese: greeting, introducing yourself, and reading hiragana.
Timetables, subjects and the classroom, with the particles that mark place and object.
Describing your family and where you live, with counters and possession.
A Japanese Year 7 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| apply | Short answer | 3–4 |
| compose | Short answer | 3–5 |
| compose | Extended response | 4–6 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| translate | Short answer | 2–3 |
Year 7 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.