Year 7 & 8 - Japanese Teacher Refresher Course

📚 Japanese Teacher Refresher Course

Get ready for a full day of learning, sharing, and resource-collecting — all tailored for Japanese teachers in Australian high schools!

🕒 For December & January Courses – Please Note Daylight Saving Time!

We start at 9am AEDT (Eastern Daylight Time)

Check your local time below:

• 9am – NSW, VIC, ACT, TAS

• 8:30am – SA, Broken Hill (NSW)

• 8am – QLD

• 7:30am - NT

• 6am – WA

👉 A full recording will be available to all registered participants!

***One 30-min break + one 15-min break included.

Please have your snacks/lunch ready so you can make the most of your break time!

🗓 Course Dates & Time

9am – 3pm (AEST/AEDT) Pick your preferred date when registering:

Year 7&8:

• Monday 22 September

• Monday 15 December

• Monday 12 January

🎁 What You’ll Get

• 🎥 Full access to session recordings

• 📂 100+ ready-to-use classroom resources (lesson slides, assessments & more!)

• 🎓 Certificate of Attendance – counts toward PD hours

• 🤝 A supportive community of Japanese teachers just like you!
  

💰 Course Cost

• $370 – Full-day course + access to all resources and recordings

• +$50 – Everything above + a 30-minute 1-on-1 consultation session
  (Perfect for personalised language support — from grammar to assessment writing!)

• Junior Course Bundle: Year 7&8 + Year 9&10 - $700 ($40 OFF)

📬 After the Course

🎓Certificate and recordings will be in the shared OneDrive folder (Available the next day)

🔔Download within a month - the folder will be cleared after that!

📘 Course Content

Year 7&8:
HOW TO TEACH the curriculum — with practical tips and real examples!

History of the Language & Culture

• Origin of Japanese language 

• How kanji, hiragana & katakana were created

• Why are family names said first in self-introduction

• Why there are different ways to address family members? - UCHI/SOTO culture

Grammar

• How to tell between verbs and non-verbs in Japanese

  • When to use です

• Easy-to-digest sentence structure & word order
  
  

Verbs

• Form: Present, past, negative, want to, volitional

• Negative

• Past/Past negative

• Introduction to te form

  • …てください

• あります＆います

  • differences
    

Adjectives

• Why are there two types of adjectives?

  • why is とくい　NA adjective when ending in ui?

• Negative form

• ＋And…　

• ＋Nouns

• Nuance differences

  • とくいvsじょうず

Particles

• は、が、を、に、で、も、や、か、の

  • Differnce: は vs が
    

Kanji

• Why there are 2+ pronunciations in each kanji & when to use each

• Kanji radicals and stories behind

  • How to teach advanced kanjis in an effective and fun way