Year 10 Languages

Language electives run for a full year, and take the place of two elective blocks (one per semester) in the timetable.

German 

Semesters 1 & 2 Overview 

In Year 10 German, students initiate and maintain interactions in written and spoken German to communicate information related to relationships, school experiences and the community. The ability to communicate in German may, in conjunction with other skills, provide students with enhanced vocational opportunities in areas such as trade, environmental studies, tourism, banking, technology and education. 

This year-long course is open only to students who have studied German at Year 9 level. 

Students will learn:  

• Socialising: Interact with others to make decisions and solve problems to complete tasks such as obtaining goods or services, and negotiate with peers to take individual and/or collective action. 
• Informing: Present information and opinions in different modes and familiar text types appropriate to audience, context and purpose, applying conventions of text types. 
• Creating: Create a variety of imaginative texts to entertain, convey ideas and express emotions. 
• Translating:  Create bilingual texts such as captions, glossaries or footnotes to interpret cultural and linguistic aspects of texts. 
• Reflecting: Reflect on self as a language user and discuss own and others’ cultural identity. 
• Systems of language: Students continue to extend their knowledge of German grammar and identify, comprehend and create a range of different text types. 
• Language variation and change: Understand that language has power and changes over time as a result of contact with other languages and with influences such as globalisation and new technologies and knowledge. 
• The role of language and culture: Students further explore the relationship between language, culture and communication and how this impacts on attitudes and beliefs. 

Japanese 

Semesters 1 & 2 Overview 

The Japanese curriculum aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure that students can communicate in Japanese with an understanding of the relationship between language and culture. They initiate and maintain interactions in written and spoken Japanese using increasingly sophisticated grammatical structures and further develop their knowledge of kanji. Students create texts for different audiences, purposes and contexts, identifying and making adjustments when transferring meaning between languages and cultures.  Students reflect on communication, identity and culture. 

This year long course assumes that students have studied Japanese at Year 9 level. 

Students will learn: 

• Socialising: With support, students initiate and sustain interactions, using both rehearsed and spontaneous language. 
• Informing: Using a range of texts, students will access and analyse information and present it appropriately. 
• Creating: Students create and present informative and imaginative texts, taking into account audience and purpose. 
• Translating: Students translate and interpret texts, making adjustments when transferring meaning between languages and cultures. 
• Reflecting: Students participate in intercultural interactions and reflect on communication, identity and culture. 
• Systems of language: Students identify the functions of different scripts within texts. They extend their understanding of both grammatical structures and text types and use metalanguage to describe and compare language features and rules of sentence construction. 
• Language variation and change: Students recognise variations in language use that reflect different social and cultural contexts, purposes and relationships. Furthermore, they will learn that languages change over time through contact with other languages and cultures. 
• The role of language and culture: Students will explore the relationship between language, culture and communication and how this impacts on attitudes and beliefs. They will recognise and explain how the Japanese language carries embedded cultural information, such as the prioritising of collective well-being, respect and harmony.