Year 9 & 10 - 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 9&10:

• Tuesday 23 September

• Tuesday 16 December

• Tuesday 13 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 9&10:
HOW TO TEACH the curriculum — with practical tips and real examples!

Katakana

• How to understand katakana pronunciation

  • Listening activity - “こいするフォーチュンクッキー

Verbs

• ますForm

  • ながら

• Te form

  • Join sentences（…て、…てから)

  • …たり…たり

  • Present continuous …ています・ている

  • …てください

  • …てもいいですか

  • …てもいいです、…てはいけません・だめです

  • …てみたい

  • …ておどろきました、びっくりしました

• Plain/dictionary form 

  • present, past, past negative

• Casual Tone　…だ,の

• Honorific phrase …でございます・まいります

• Volitional …します・…ませんか・しない

• Potential form　できます

Grammar

• Sentence structure & Word order

  • Reasoning　から

Adjectives

• Revisions on: present negative, adjective and…(te form)

• Past & past negative

• Adjective＋そう・みたい

• Subtle nuances: ほしいです＆たいです

• Why いい is irregular

Vocabulary

• Frequency

• Inquiry words　どうやって、どちら・どれ…

• Comparison　…より、…のほうが

• これ・それ・あれ　この・その・あの

  • Nuance difference: その話＆あの話

Particles　は・が・を・に・で・も・や・か・の

• Subtle nuances of each particle in depth

• Subtle but important differences between で＆に

• In-depth explanation of に for time

  • (When to use に & when not to 子供の時に or 子供の時 &
    When to and when not to place に after time word: 時々、毎日、あした、来月、冬、2032年、午前8時
    日本で人気がありますVSこどもに人気があります)

• Particles for directions

  • 一つ目＿かど＿まっすぐ＿行ってください。すると、家＿右＿見えます。

• Listening activity - “こいするフォーチュンクッキー” - Analyse the lyrics with a focus on particles