WAGASA BOOK 2
BOOK 2 is for the current VCE Japanese Units 3 & 4 commenced in 2020. Topics include suggestions for the school assessed course work for all VCE outcomes. Writing styles, features of text types and sample writing with analysis are provided to improve writing skills. Each book includes a free USB with audio listening tasks featuring key words, expressions and conversations relate with the topics.
Topics:
仕事と将(しょう)来 ~ Career and Future
日本の教育(きょういく)と 学生生活 ~ Japanese Education and Students’ Life
日本料理(りょうり)・和食 ~ Japanese cuisine
日本のスポーツ ~ Japanese sports
日本の余暇(よか) ~ Pastime in Japan
日本の家/庭(にわ) ~ Japanese house/garden
日本の自然(しぜん)と環境(かんきょう) ~ Japanese nature and environment
学生生活とIT ~ Student life and IT
Appendices:
Grammar patterns and exercises
Functions of particles and exercises
Conjunctions and exercises
Casual speech and honorifics with exercises
Writing types, styles, assessment criteria and samples – this is to guide students to produce successful composition for writing tasks.
*USB drive contains conversation topics and sample questions, verb conjugation, audio files for listening tasks and solutions
Apology for Errata:
Page 5 if one buys → if one writes
Page 55 Kanji’s symbolic meaning 男 male/man 女 female/woman 子 child 人 person
Page 80 E.g. next month → last month
Page 96 Kanji’s symbolic meaning 漢 Han Dynasty
Page 150 B.4 うたう → する/おどる