Level: Beginner to Advanced
Suggested teaching hours: dependant upon goals
Writing practice using Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji
Speaking practice based on grammatical structures
Learning through Japanese pop culture, such as reading Manga comics
GCSE
Exam board: Edexcel
Age: secondary school and adult students (ますForm, てForm, たForm, ないForm, Dictionary-form)
Suggested teaching hours: 60 - 100 hours dependant upon the level of the student(s)
Writing an essay up to 300 characters using Hiragana, Katakana, and 200 kanji
Speaking about media, travel, culture, sport, leisure and work for 8-10 minutes
Reading and responding to written Japanese/ Listening and responding to spoken Japanese
GCE AS level
Exam Board: Edexcel
Age: post-16 students
Suggested teaching hours: approx. 50 hours dependant upon the level of the student(s)
Reading and responding to written Japanese
Translating Japanese text into English
Writing an essay about youth culture, lifestyle, travel, environment, education and employment up to 400 characters using 400 kanji (200 from GCSE)
GCE A level
Exam Board: Edexcel
Age: post-16 students
Suggested teaching hours: approx. 50 hours dependant upon the level of the student(s)
Reading and responding to written Japanese
Translating English text into Japanese
Writing essays about youth culture, lifestyle, travel, environment, education, customs, beliefs, religions, national/international events, literature and employment up to 600 characters using 600 kanji (400 from AS Level)
JLPT （日本語能力試験）
Exam Board: Japan Foundation and Japan Educational Exchanges and Services
Level: N1 - N5
Suggested teaching hours: N1/900 hrs, N2/600 hrs, N3/500 hrs, N4/300 hrs, N5/150 hrs
dependant upon the level of the student(s)
N1: Advanced 2000 kanji and 10,000 words
N2: Upper intermediate 1,000 kanji and 6,000 words
N3: Intermediate 700 kanji and 4,000 words
N4: Basic 300 kanji, 1,500 words
N5: Introductory 100 kanji, 800 words
Japanese Breakthrough
Exam Board: OCR Asset Languages
Age: secondary school and adult students
Suggested teaching hours: approx. 30 hours dependant upon the level of the student(s)
Hiragana, Katakana, 10 kanji
Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing in simple social situations
Japanese Preliminary
Exam Board: OCR Asset Languages
Age: secondary school and adult students
Suggested teaching hours: approx. 50 hours dependant upon the level of the student(s)
Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing in social situations
100 kanji (10 from Breakthrough)
Japanese Intermediate
Exam Board: OCR Asset Languages
Age: secondary school and adult students
Suggested teaching hours: approx. 50 hours dependant upon the level of the student(s)
Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing, expressing and finding out opinions
220 kanji (100 from Preliminary)
Japanese Advanced Lessons
Exam Board: OCR Asset Languages
Age: secondary school and adult students
Suggested teaching hours: approx. 100 hours dependant upon the level of the student(s)
Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing in a wide range of areas and contexts
500 kanji (220 from Intermediate)