Dear Japanese teachers,

We are excited to announce that we have made some changes to our booking system. To arrange a visit:
- please complete the initial booking request form
- once we receive your booking request, we will email you to confirm the date of your visit
- approximately 3 weeks prior to your visit, you will be emailed a Google Form, asking you to confirm final details of your excursion, including student names and groups.

​For teachers bringing Stage 4 students, you now have the option of selecting some of your own activities for your school's program, or allowing the Tanken Centre officers to fully design your program.

We have also aligned all of our activities to syllabus outcomes for Stage 4, and are currently working on Stage 5. Download our Stage 4 outcomes document to learn more.

We look forward to seeing you in 2021,
Mieko and Taka

We have just published a Stage 5 Japanese scope and sequence on our website, which builds on the Stage 4 scope and sequence. Scope and sequence documents are now available for Stage 5 across 10 languages, so take the time to explore and gather ideas.

Our talented Tanken Centre team has just released their third activity pack to support teachers of Japanese – Japan!

This activity package introduces students to the culture of Japan through a series of stunning images, as a short video with interactive worksheet. It may be used as a stand-alone activity at the start of a course or embedded into existing units of work.

You can download the resource, with all relevant links, from the Stages 4 and 5 Japanese section of our website – scroll to the bottom of the page. You'll also find the Tanken Centre's other activity packs there too – 'Japanese house' and 'Making onigiri'.

If you would like to contact JTAN with a question or suggestion, please use JTAN's new website's contact form.​

The recording of this online professional learning session which was held on Friday 7 August by The Japan Foundation, Sydney will be available until 31 October 2020.
To access this video on demand please register at this link.
For further enquiries, please contact The Japan Foundation, Sydney.​

The Tanken Centre has created a video with highlights of Japan, including:
- what Japan is known for
- famous sites
- food in Japan.

The Tanken Centre team is also working on an accompanying activity package in the near future, however we wanted to release the video quickly for subject selection or just as a beautiful classroom resource.

You can view the resource below, or download it from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BfMTUEwoUqeBbjeXTbJ1BAPkC83dNsfc/view?usp=sharing

In response to teacher feedback, we have updated our sample speaking questions for Japanese Continuers. The questions we originally published were adapted from the old HSC Online site, and feedback indicated that the types of questions asked during the oral examination have changed since HSC Online was first published.

​You can access the updated questions from our Stage 6 Japanese Continuers page.

The Tanken Centre has launched a new Facebook group to share centre happenings and Japanese resources sourced or created by the Tanken Centre team – Mieko Shida and Taka Yoshino. Please join for regular updates regarding the centre, resources and ideas.
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​There is already a great housing activity package there to check out and try with your classes. Please join the Tanken Centre Facebook group at this link.

Mieko and Taka from the Tanken Centre have created videos of HSC speaking sample questions for Year 12 Japanese Beginners and Continuers courses. They have also created lists of sample questions. Please share these resources with your students to assist them with practising their speaking skills.

Continuers – personal world, education
Continuers – daily life, health
Continuers – leisure
Continuers – future plans, miscellaneous
Beginners – family, neighbourhood, education
Beginners – friends, holidays
 
Continuers sample questions
Beginners sample questions