Japanese Year 7 · Stage 4-5

Greetings and Hiragana

First contact in Japanese: greeting, introducing yourself, and reading hiragana.

Dot points
8
Module
1 of 3
Course
Japanese Year 7
01What this module asks of you

The 8 syllabus dot points in Greetings and Hiragana

These are the statements the Japanese Year 7 syllabus makes about Greetings and Hiragana. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.

  1. 01

    Hiragana: the basic 46 characters

    Hiragana: the basic 46 characters - Greetings and Hiragana, Year 7.

  2. 02

    Greetings by time of day

    Greetings by time of day - Greetings and Hiragana, Year 7.

  3. 03

    はじめまして and self-introduction

    はじめまして and self-introduction - Greetings and Hiragana, Year 7.

  4. 04

    Numbers 1-100

    Numbers 1-100 - Greetings and Hiragana, Year 7.

  5. 05

    です and か for questions

    です and か for questions - Greetings and Hiragana, Year 7.

  6. 06

    Particles は and の

    Particles は and の - Greetings and Hiragana, Year 7.

  7. 07

    Age and school year

    Age and school year - Greetings and Hiragana, Year 7.

  8. 08

    Katakana for foreign names

    Katakana for foreign names - Greetings and Hiragana, Year 7.

02How it is examined

What a Greetings and Hiragana question asks you to do

Year 7 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Greetings and Hiragana are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Japanese Year 7 uses.

apply3–4compose3–5compose4–6identify1translate2–3

Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.

03Where this module sits

Greetings and Hiragana in the Japanese Year 7 course

Greetings and Hiragana opens the Japanese Year 7 course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.

Start of courseGreetings and Hiragana
Next moduleSchool Life8 dot points

Find the Greetings and Hiragana dot points you have never been asked

Dux diagnoses Japanese Year 7 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.

04Also in Japanese Year 7