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Chinese: Culture & Society

Chinese: Culture & Society

Course Summary

Are you looking to travel or looking to pursue a global career? Studying a foreign Language has great benefits. You will improve verbal and spatial skills, promotes creativity and improves attention to detail. Practising a language helps the brain more healthy, complex, active and engaged.

VCE: Unit 1 and Unit 2 available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Communicate with others using Chinese
  • Understand your own culture(s) through the study of other cultures
  • Understand language as a system
  • Make connections between Chinese and English
  • Apply Chinese to work, further study, training or leisure

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Explore Subject (VCAA)

Approximate Costs

Unit 1 – 4

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Language Learning Area Leader

Lyn Zhang

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Indonesian

Indonesian

Course Summary

Are you looking to travel or looking to pursue a global career? Studying a foreign Language has great benefits. You will improve verbal and spatial skills, promotes creativity and improves attention to detail. Practising a language helps the brain more healthy, complex, active and engaged.

VCE: Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Expand on your Indonesian language skills further
  • Learn about the life of Indonesian young person
  • Investigate a range of social and environmental issues impacting Indonesia
  • Learn how to express ideas and opinions in a variety of different situation using Indonesian

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Approximate Costs

Unit 1 – 4

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Japanese

Japanese

Course Summary

Are you looking to travel or looking to pursue a global career? Studying a foreign Language has great benefits. You will improve verbal and spatial skills, promotes creativity and improves attention to detail. Practising a language helps the brain more healthy, complex, active and engaged.

VCE: Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Develop an understanding of personal identity, lifestyles, relationships, aspiration, education and visiting Japan
  • Apply Japanese language in a personal, imaginative, persuasive, informative and evaluative context
  • Develop an of the Japan speaking community, significant people and a changing Japan
  • Undertake a detailed study on one of the topics covered

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Approximate Costs

Unit 1 – 4

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Language Learning Area Leader

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Chinese: Mandarin

Chinese: Mandarin

Course Summary

Are you looking to travel or looking to pursue a global career? Studying a foreign Language has great benefits. You will improve verbal and spatial skills, promotes creativity and improves attention to detail. Practising a language helps the brain more healthy, complex, active and engaged.

VCE: Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • A role play focusing on negotiating a solution to a personal issue
  • An interview providing information and responding to questions
  • Responses to specific questions using written, spoken and viewed texts
  • A written response for a specific audience and purpose
  • A personal, informative or imaginative piece of writing

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Explore Subject (VCAA)

Approximate Costs

Unit 1 – 4

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Language Learning Area Leader

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Chinese (Year 10)

Chinese (Year 10)

Course Summary

Are you looking to travel or looking to pursue a global career? Studying a foreign Language has great benefits. You will improve verbal and spatial skills, promotes creativity and improves attention to detail. Practising a language helps the brain more healthy, complex, active and engaged.

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Advance your Chinese language skills
  • Explore culture, traditional history and people who speak the language
  • Make a passport/ ID card
  • Visa Application Form
  • Booking hotels, ordering food in a restaurant/plane & navigating to your destinations

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Victorian Curriculum (VCAA)

Approximate Costs

Semester 1

Language Perfect Subscription $40

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Language Learning Area Leader

Lyn Zhang

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French (Year 10)

French (Year 10)

Course Summary

Are you looking to travel or looking to pursue a global career? Studying a foreign Language has great benefits. You will improve verbal and spatial skills, promotes creativity and improves attention to detail. Practising a language helps the brain more healthy, complex, active and engaged.

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Advance your French language skills
  • Explore culture, traditional history and people who speak the language
  • Make a passport/ ID card
  • Visa Application Form
  • Booking hotels, ordering food in a restaurant/plane & navigating to your destinations

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Victorian Curriculum (VCAA)

Approximate Costs

Semester 1

TBC

Learning Area Contact

Language Learning Area Leader

Lyn Zhang

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Indonesian (Year 10)

Indonesian (Year 10)

Course Summary

Are you looking to travel or looking to pursue a global career? Studying a foreign Language has great benefits. You will improve verbal and spatial skills, promotes creativity and improves attention to detail. Practising a language helps the brain more healthy, complex, active and engaged.

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Advance your Indonesian language skills
  • Explore culture, traditional history and people who speak the language
  • Make a passport/ ID card
  • Visa Application Form
  • Booking hotels, ordering food in a restaurant/plane & navigating to your destinations

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Victorian Curriculum (VCAA)

Approximate Costs

Semester 1

Language Perfect Subscription $40

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Language Learning Area Leader

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Japanese (Year 10)

Japanese (Year 10)

Course Summary

Are you looking to travel or looking to pursue a global career? This course aims to broaden and consolidate students’ lower intermediate knowledge of the Japanese language acquired in Years 7 to 9. A substantial number of vocabulary, kanji and grammar points at the intermediate level are introduced using function-based textbooks, whilst enabling students to review and integrate their prior knowledge of vocabulary and grammar. This subject also offers practical communication practice to build students’ ability to converse and discuss a wide range of topics. At the same time, strong emphasis is placed on developing reading and writing skills using practical materials used for different functions and situations in Japanese. The main aim of this course is to prepare students for the VCE Japanese course.

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Write a descriptive recount of a special event or holiday
  • Prepare and present a dialogue with a friend to organise an outing
  • Design a dream room and understand the elements of a traditional Japanese room
  • Comprehend weather forecasts and the significance of the seasons for Japanese people

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Future Pathways
Victorian Curriculum (VCAA)

Approximate Costs

Semester 1

Language Perfect Subscription $40

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Language Learning Area Leader

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Vietnamese (Year 10)

Vietnamese (Year 10)

Course Summary

Are you looking to travel or looking to pursue a global career? Studying a foreign Language has great benefits. You will improve verbal and spatial skills, promotes creativity and improves attention to detail. Practising a language helps the brain more healthy, complex, active and engaged.

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Advance your Vietnamese language skills
  • Explore culture, traditional history and people who speak the language
  • Make a passport/ ID card
  • Visa Application Form
  • Booking hotels, ordering food in a restaurant/plane & navigating to your destinations

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Future Pathways
Victorian Curriculum (VCAA)

Approximate Costs

Semester 1

TBC

Learning Area Contact

Language Learning Area Leader

Lyn Zhang