Year 8 Assessment Booklet 2017

IB MYP YEAR 8 – LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: JAPANESE Phase 2/3

SEMESTER STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

KEY CONCEPT/S

GLOBAL CONTEXT Identities and Relationships

CONTENT

ASSESSMENT

To initiate and promote introductory communication, students will learn vocabulary, script and language structures to acknowledge and describe personal details of self and others and relationships, by expressing facts and details in the Japanese language, reflecting specific cultural gestures. To highlight connections, students will learn vocabulary and language structures to identify and describe likes/dislikes for friends and themselves, by expressing facts and details in the Japanese language, reflecting specific cultural gestures. To initiate and promote interesting communication, students will learn vocabulary and language structures to acknowledge their own interests and that of Japanese people and to describe personal details and relationships, by expressing facts and details in the Japanese language, reflecting specific cultural activities. To develop and promote understanding and emitting written information to other students by acknowledging sentence structure and script as being incorporated into language learning.

Communication

Comprehending spoken and visual text (Criterion A)

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Greetings and Self- Introduction Classroom Items and Instructions

Message

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Communicating in response to spoken, written and visual text (Criterion C)

Purpose

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Hiragana script

Numbers

Family, pets, descriptors

Using language in spoken and written form (Criterion D) Comprehending written and visual text (Criterion B)

Nationality

ONE

Identities and Relationships

Food and Drink

Days and frequency Likes and dislikes

Communicating in response to spoken, written and visual text (Criterion C)

Friends

Using language in spoken and written form (Criterion D) Comprehending spoken and visual text (Criterion A)

Personal and Cultural Expression

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Hobbies and activities Interview question style for when, who, where, how General time words and transport items

Communicating in response to spoken, written and visual text (Criterion C)

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Using language in spoken and written form (Criterion D)

TWO

Personal and Cultural Expression

Culture

Comprehending written and visual text (Criterion B)

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School clubs

New Year Celebrations Katakana And Kanji

Content

Communicating in response to spoken, written and visual text (Criterion C)

Past tense/events

Theme

Using language in spoken and written form (Criterion D)

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