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Japanese (1JA0)
7 sections available · 35 chapters available
Free Japanese (1JA0) study notes for Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Theme 1: Identity and culture
Who am I?: relationships; when I was younger; what my friends and family are like; what makes a good friend
Who am I?: interests; socialising with friends and family; role models
Daily life: customs and everyday life; food and drink; shopping
Daily life: social media and technology (use of, advantages and disadvantages)
Cultural life: celebrations and festivals
Cultural life: reading; music; sport; film and television
Theme 2: Local area, holiday and travel
Holidays: preferences; experiences; destinations
Travel and tourist transactions: travel and accommodation; directions
Travel and tourist transactions: asking for help and dealing with problems; eating out; shopping
Town, region and country: weather; places to see; things to do
Theme 3: School
What school is like: school types; school day; subjects
What school is like: rules and pressures; celebrating success
School activities: school trips; events and exchanges
Theme 4: Future aspirations, study and work
Using languages beyond the classroom: forming relationships; travel; employment
Ambitions: further study; volunteering; training
Work: jobs; careers and professions
Theme 5: International and global dimension
Bringing the world together: sports events; music events; campaigns and good causes
Environmental issues: being 'green'; access to natural resources
Grammar
Copula: polite forms (です/でした) and plain forms (だ/だった), linking で
I-adjectives: with nouns, sentence endings (polite and plain), linking くて and adverbial く (くなる, くする)
Na-adjectives: with nouns, sentence endings (polite and plain), linking で and adverbial に (になる, にする)
Adverbs of frequency, quantity and (non-)completion (よく, 時々, あまり, ぜんぜん, もう, まだ)
Verbs: polite forms (ます, ません, ました, ませんでした) and ます-stem endings (ましょう, たい, はじめる, おわる, つづける, ながら, に for purpose)
Verbs: て form and its endings (てください, てもいいです, てはいけません, て…て linking, てから, ています)
Verbs: plain forms, ない-form endings (ないでください, ないほうがいい) and た-form endings (たり…たり, た後で, たことがあります, たほうがいい)
Dictionary-form endings: 前に, つもり, よてい, ことができます, ことが好きです
Verbs of existence (ある/いる) and giving and receiving (あげる/もらう)
Questions: か, question words, or-questions and question word + も/か/でも
Conjunctions and opinions: が, から, …し…し and と思います
こそあど words (これ/この/こんな/こちら series)
Particles: か, の, ぐらい/ごろ, は, も, で, へ, を, や, と, に, が, しか, から, まで, だけ, でも and sentence-ending ね/よ/わ
Numbers, counters (枚, 本, 冊, 匹, 台, 人, 番, 才, 目, 円, 回, 階, 杯), dates and time
Script
Hiragana and katakana
Kanji list: Foundation tier
Kanji list: Higher tier
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