YEAR 8

ASSESSMENT TASK 4
YEARLY EXAM
2021

JAPANESE
Student name:
Mark:
Percentage: 25%

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TOTAL MARK: 66 Marks

● Exam date: Monday 22/11 (Week 8) ● PART A – 23 Marks
Listening and Responding
● Ensure that you write your name in the
space provided. ● PART B – 17 Marks
Reading and Responding
● Allow 40 minutes for this section
● PART C – 26 Marks
● Write using black or blue pen.
Writing
● Marks may not be awarded for messy or
badly arranged work.
● All booklets will be collected at the end of
examination.

SYLLABUS OUTCOMES:
● LJA4-1C: Uses Japanese to interact with others to exchange information, ideas and opinions, and make plans

● LJA4-2C: Identifies main ideas in, and obtains information from texts

● LJA4-3C: Organises and responds to information and ideas in texts for different audiences

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 ● LJA4-4U: Applies a range of linguistic structures to compose texts in Japanese, using a range of formats for different audiences

● LJA4-6U: Demonstrates understanding of key aspects of Japanese writing conventions

● LJA4-7U: Applies features of Japanese grammatical structures and sentence patterns to convey information and
ideas

PART A: Listening and Responding (23 marks)

A. Listen to students introducing their pets, and write a number below each
picture to show the order in which the pets are described. (6 marks)
You will hear the script twice.

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 B. Listen to each person’s description of what they like to eat and drink for
the particular meal and complete the table below in English. (12 marks)
You will hear the script twice.

Person Breakfast/lunch/dinner Food Drink

Emma Cereal Tea

Breakfast

Yuriko Lunch Fish and sushi Water and

ice

Ken Dinner Meat Cola

Daichi McDonald’s Vanilla

Breakfast apple pie milkshake

Note taking space:

C. Listen to the events coming up this month and complete the calendar in
English. (5 marks) You will hear the script twice.
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 DECEMBER

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Excursion

8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Japanese test Camp

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Christmas

29 30 31

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 PART B: Reading and Responding (17 marks)

A. Read the following lost dog notice and answer questions in English on the
following page. (17 marks)

いぬを さがしています！

わたしの いぬの なまえは まめすけです。

まめは 四さいです。
小さいです。そして、かわいいです。
でも、うるさいです。

わたしの なまえは たなか まさきです。

かわごえに すんでいます。
でんわばんごうは 五七四〇の九一六八です。
ありがとう ございます。

＊そして: And
＊でも: But

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 Questions:

1. What is the name of the missing dog? 1

2. How old is the dog? 1

3. The dog is: 1

(a) Big and noisy
(b) Small and cute
(c) Big and scary
(d) Small and scary

4. What is the full name of the dog’s owner? 3

5. Where does the owner live? 1

6. Rewrite the phone number in English (using numbers like 1, 2, 3) 9

7. Why did the owner use ありがとうございます instead of ありがとう, at 1

the end?

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 PART C: WRITING (26 MARKS)

A. Translate the following sentences into Japanese - Using the appropriate

Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji.

1
. My hobby is piano.

___________________________________________________________ 6

2
. What kind of sports do you do?

___________________________________________________________ 5

3
. I play karate, Japanese archery and Japanese sword fighting.

___________________________________________________________ 7

4. I can play tennis a little bit.

___________________________________________________________ 4

5. I can’t cook at all!

____________________________________________________________ 4

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 END OF EXAM

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