Quirky comics – Japanese
A series of entertaining Japanese videos and texts that support language learning.
The 'Quirky comics' video texts support the teaching of 'Understanding texts' outcomes in the Modern Languages K-10 Syllabus. This can be done in many ways, including:
- Students can use the provided transcripts to read the stories aloud and record themselves perform the stories as plays.
- They can summarise, sequence, extend and change the beginning or ending of the stories.
- They can write profiles of the characters and then put them in different situations.
The texts can also lead to communicative 'Interacting' or 'Creating texts' tasks, such as, telling a nurse why you don’t feel well or writing an invitation to a birthday party.
This video is about a boy who sees an alien.
This video is about a girl who remembers past events about her life on TV.
An entertaining video about students who feel sick at school and have to go to the nurse.
This video is about a young man who receives a mysterious phone call that leads him to different places.
This video is about a girl who encounters a sequence of bad events while trying to get to school.
Syllabus
Outcomes referred to in this document are from Modern Languages K–10 Syllabus (2022) © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024.