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Japapanese GCSE Specification from June 2010

GCSE Specification from June 2010 examination

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GCSE Grammar/Structures from GCSE Japanese 2010

Students will be expected to have acquired knowledge and understanding of the following aspects of the grammar of the target language during their course.

Copula

Polite Form / Plain form
です だ
では・じゃありません じゃない・ではない
でした だった
では・じゃありませんでした じゃなかった・ではなかった

Linking form

で (父はアメリカ人で、55才です。)

Questions

Use of か to form a question

Questions words いつ、どこ、だれ、何、どう、いかが、どのくらい、
どのぐらい、どうして、どなた、どんな、どれ、どの、いくつ、どうやって
、いくら、どちら、
何+counter (何週間、何人)

Or questions (バスで行きますか、タクシーで行きますか。)

Question word plus も plus negative (何も食べませんでした)Question word plus も for ‘everyone’ etc(どれもおいしいです)
Question word plus か for ‘something’etc (何か飲みませんか)
Question word plus でも for ‘anything’ etc(どこでも行きます。)

Numbers and counting

Numbers 1 – 100,000,000
つ series
Counters: まい、本、さつ、ひき、だい、人、番、才、目、円、かい、
はい (cups of drinks)

Verbs

Polite form Plain form
ます 食べる・書く
ません 食べない・書かない
ました 食べた・書いた
ませんでした 食べたかった・書かなかった
te forms
Endings derived from ます form
ましょう(か)
+たいです (たくないです、たくありません、たかったです、たくなかったです)
+はじめる、おわる、つづける
+に for purpose, 映画を見に行きます。
+ ながら

Endings with て form
+ ください
+ もいいです
+ はいけません
+ て、て、て link (eg 朝おきて、朝ご飯を食べて、学校へ行きます)
+ てから (勉強してから、テレビを見ます。)
+ ています for present progressive (テレビを見ています)
for present state (銀行につとめています)

Endings with ない form
ないでください (eg この部屋に入らないでください)

Endings derived from たform
たり、たりします (eg 買い物をしたり、映画を見たりします)
た後で、 (eg 勉強した後で、あそびに行きます)
たことがあります (日本へ行ったことがあります。)

Endings with dictionary form
前に、 (eg ご飯を食べる前に、手を洗います)
つもり (eg 大学で日本語を勉強するつもりです)
よてい (eg 来年日本に行くよていです)
ことができます (eg私は泳ぐことができます)
ことが好きです (eg料理をすることが好きです)

Specific verbs

Verbs of existence ある and いる
With location, eg 新聞はつくえの上にあります。
With です replacing the verb 新聞はつくえの上です。
With quantity 部屋に子供が三人います。
Verbs of giving and receiving あげる and もらう

Linking sentences

が eg 教室に行きましたが、ひろこさんはいませんでした。
から for reasons スポーツが好きですから、野球クラブに入りました。
今日は遠足に行きません。雨が降っていますから。
……し….し 今日はしゅくだいも多いし、天気もわるいので、あそび
に行きません。

Giving an opinion

Use of と思います。

Dates and time

Telling the date (including 年)
Giving the date
Days of the week
時間 for length of time

こそあど words

ここ そこ あそこ どこ
この その あの どの
これ それ あれ どれ
こんな そんな あんな どんな
こちら そちら あちら どちら

I adjectives

With a noun eg 赤い花
As a sentence ending: Polite form 赤いです、赤くないです、赤くありません
赤かったです、赤くなかったです
Plain form 赤い、赤くない、赤かった、赤くなかった
Linking form 赤くて (eg この花は赤くてきれいです。)
As an adverb 安く (eg このくつは安く買いました) (including くなる、くする)

Na Adjectives

With a noun 静かな公園
As a sentence ending: Polite form 静かです、静かではありません、静かじゃありません、
静かでした、静かじゃありませんでした、
静かではありませんでした
Plain form 静かだ、静かではない、静かじゃない
静かだった、静かではなかった、静かじゃなかった
Linking form 静かで (eg この公園は静かでいいです)
As an adverb 静かに(eg 静かにしてください)(including になる、にする)

Adverbs

Of frequency よく、時々、あまり、ぜんぜん
Of quantity たくさん、少し、ちょっと、とても、たいへん
Of (non) completion もう、まだ

Particles

か (1) For questions これはりんごですか。
(2) For or バスかタクシーで行きます。
ぐらい Approximately 200g ぐらいあります。
ごろ Approximately 3時ごろ行きます。
の (1) For possessive これは私の車です。
(2) For pronoun 大きいのをください。
(3) For apposition シルクのネクタイを買いました。
は (1) For subject 私は高校生です。
(2) For negative テニスは好きじゃありません。
(3) For contrast 肉は食べますが、魚は食べません。
も (1) Also 私はイギリス人です。トム君もイギリス人です。
(2) Both… and… りんごもバナナも好きです。
で (1) For location プールで泳ぎます。
(2) For a tool バスで行きます。フォークで食べます。
(3) After a number 三人で行きました。四つで百円です。
(4) For a reason 病気で学校を休みました。
へ With verbs of motion 学校へ行きます。
を (1) With direct object コーヒーを飲みます。
(2) With certain verbs 公園をとおります。
や For non-exclusive and バナナやりんごを買いました。
と (1) For and 新聞とざっしを買いました。
(2) For with 父と町に行きました。
に (1) After a time 三時に行きます。
(2) With verbs of motion 公園に行きます。
(3) With verbs of existence 本は教室にあります。
(4) For an indirect object 弟に本を読みます。
(5) For frequency 一日に三回薬を飲みます。
が (1) Subject marker 私が行きます。
(2) Conjunction りんごは食べますが、バナナは食べません。
だけ Only 一つだけください。
しか Only 百円しかありません。
から (1) With time パーティーは三時からです。
(2) With place イギリスから来ました。
まで (1) With time 学校は四時までです。
(2) With place 東京まで行きます。
でも Suggested example お茶でも飲みませんか。
わ Sentence ending これはとてもおいしいわ。
ね Sentence ending 今日はいい天気ですね。
よ Sentence ending そろそろ行きますよ。

NB: Some of the particles above may be used as double particles, but a detailed treatment of double particles is not
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02 Time (Lesson slides)

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Family and there is/are (1) (Lesson Slides)

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My lesson slides in a pdf format.

63 pages, 8 Mb

Updated on 24.Feb.2008

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Let’s Learn Japanese 01 (Video)

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Year 9 End of the year Exam

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The Japanese exam will involve 4 skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening and it will cover the following topics and scripts.

Topics
Introductions (introduction, greetings and set phrases, numbers, I am from etc)
Myself and family (ages, family members, countries and nationalities, telephone numbers, occupations, animals, zodiac years)
Time (o’clock, am, pm, from, till, days of week, days of months, birthdays)
Shopping (numbers up to million, various nouns, Japanese foods, counters)
There is/are, exist (**** ga imasu/arimasu)
Adjectives (i-adjectives and na-adjectives, the best, more etc)

Scripts
All Hiragna Scripts and spelling rules
Kanji to write and read:
一、ニ、三、四、五、六、七、八、九、十、才、百、千、万、円、日、月、火、水、木、金、土、時、分、半、本、日本、人、休、何、山、川、海、毎日、毎月、母、男、女、子、好きな
Kanji to recognise / read:曜

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Year 9 Term 1 Vocabulary Exercises

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Matching Flashcards (Java / non-Java)
Concentration
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Japanese for Young People L01-05 Battleship

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Lesson 1 – 5 Japanese for Young People

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Hiragana あーと

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Hiragana (a-to) 20 lettersLearn hiragana from あ to

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Hiragana 2 (na-yo) 18 letters

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Year 9 Exam Kanji Exercises

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Practice all Kanji.

一、ニ、三、四、五、六、七、八、九、十、才、百、千、万、円、日、月、火、水、木、金、土、時、分、半、本、日本、人、休、何、山、川、海、毎日、毎月、母、男、女、子、好きな

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Useful Daily Expressions with sounds

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Useful Daily Expressions
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Textbook Genki Greetings Video

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Genki video
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How to count up to 10 in Japanese.

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84 =8×10+4 hachi jyu yon
65= 6×10+5 roku jyu go

 
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A Song for Numbers and Greetings

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ichi, ni, san, yon, go, roku, shichi, hachi, (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 )
hachi, kyu, jyu, hachi, kyu, jyu, (8, 9, 10, 8, 9, 10)
jyu ichi, jyu ni, jyu ichi, jyu ni (11, 12, 11, 12)
ima nan-ji (What time is it now?)
Yo-ji desu. (It’s 4 o’clock.)

ichi, ni, san, yon, go, roku, shichi, hachi, (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 )
ohayo, konnichi wa (Good morning, Good afternoon)
hachi, kyu, jyu, jyu ichi, jyu ni, (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
konbanwa, oyasumi (Good evening, Good night.)

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Number 1-10

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telephone number

If you click numbers, you can hear the sound.
If you click the face of man, you can hear his telephone number.
Then, you have to choose the correct telephone number.

If you click next, you can do more exercises.

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Numbers 1-99

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Numbers 1-99

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Did you win a lottery?

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Time expressions vocabulary

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Time expressions vocabulary
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Textbook Genki Lesson 1 Video

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Genki Video 01
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A: Excuse me. What time is now?
B: It is half past twelve.
A: Thank you.
B: You are welcome

A: Are you an international student?
B: Yes, I am a student at the University of Arizona.
A: I see. What is your major?
B: Japanese. I am in the second year.

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Family (my and other’s)

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family

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Yamada’s Family

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Suzuki-san no gokazoku (Song)

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Introduce friend’s family members

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My school / job (Speaking)

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You are showing a Japanese visitor around your school/company. Please tell him/her a little about your school/company, for example:

-What time school/your job starts and finishes
-Which days of the week you come to school/work
-What time is your lunch break
-What subjects you are studying
(what is your job.)
-Which subjects you like or dislike
-How you get to school/work
-If you have any activities after school or work

Please bear in mind the following things:

Tense = present tense

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Last weekend or holiday (Speaking)

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Please tell me what you did last weekend or your last holiday. For example,

-What time you got up
-What you ate
-Where you went, by what means of transport and with whom
-What you did
-What time you returned home and how
-What time you went to bed

Please be careful all sentences should be in past tenses!

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How to count people (Song)

10 Little Indians

Hitori, Futari, San-nin Imasu

Yo-nin, go-nin, Roku-nin imasu

Shichi-nin, Hachi-nin, Kyuu- nin imasu.

Jyu-nin no Indian booizu.

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ひとり、ふたり、さんにん います。

よにん、ごにん、ろくにん います。

しちにん、はちにん、きゅうにん、います。

じゅうにんのインディアン(いんでぃあん)ボーイズ(ぼういず)

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一人、二人、三人 います。

四人、五人、六人 います。

七人、八人、九人 います。

十人の インディアン(いんでぃあん)ボーイズ(ぼういず)

 
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This is my family

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How many people in your family? (dialogue)

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My typical day (Writing)

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Please write your typical day in Hiragana, using Kanji to write numbers. Please try to use expressions such as “sometime,” “always,” “not very often,” “every —,” “usually” and so on.

For instance,

-What time you usually wake up
-What do you eat for breakfast
-What time school/work start and finish
-How to get to school/work
-Which subject you are studying (name at least 2 subjects)
-Which subject you like (or Which subject you used to like)

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My last holiday (Writing)

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Please write your last holiday in Hiragana, using Kanji to write numbers and where you can.

For instance

-Where you went
-How you got there (transportation)
-What ate for breakfast
-What you did
-How it was (fun, boring, beautiful etc.)

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My summer holiday (Reading)

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なつ休みに ちゅうごくへ いきました。
水曜日から、火曜日まで いきました。
いい おてんき でした。
でんしゃと ひこうきで いきました。
おいしい、ちゅうごくりょうりを たくさん たべました。
午前は、おおきい まちで、かいものを しました。
それから、午後、えいごの えいがを みました。
ちゅうごくは、はじめて ですが、だいすきです。

If you are really stuck, you can use this site.
But try to translate without it, if yo can.

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Let’s Learn Japanese 02 (Video)

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これ、それ、あれ、
この、その、あの

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Introduce myself (1) (Writing or Speaking)

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Please introduce yourself.

For instance,

-greeting
-tell your name
-where you come from
-tell your age
-tell your school year
-greeting

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