Access Japanese : Curriculum for Beginner III

We design standards-based conversation lesson according to your needs / interests. For your reference we have outlined the standards for the daily conversation program at the high-intermediate level.
Eligibility	This course is for those who have had at least 150 hours of Japanese-as-a-second-language lessons or for those who have finished Japanese for Busy People Vol. II or know its grammar points.
Material	Japanese for Busy People III textbook, the workbook, conversation tapes, CDs, movies, restaurant menu, tickets, maps, magazines, teacher's handouts, Kanji sheets and more.)
Objective	Developing "language sense" to the point where students can adapt their Japanese to various different situations.
Skills	Speaking, listening, reading, writing
Vocabulary	Approximately 866 words
Lessons	20(100 hours)
Teaching method	Communicative approach.

1. Job Hunters
Objectives
    Talking about how things appear using ようです.
    Repeating comments heard from someone else using そうです.
    Making comparisons using ようです.

2. A Cancelled Reservation
Objectives
    Using the particle で to state cause and / or reason.
    Using はず to state what you think ought to be the case.
    Using the formal laguage of apology.

3. A Message from Chang
Objectives
    Using ように to give a message requesting someone to do something.
    Using か or かどうか to make indirect questions.
    Reviewing indirect questions.

4. Shopping for Pottery
Objectives
Speaking about hearsay impressions using　らしいです.
Stating your impression upon seeing something using そうです.

5. House for Rent
Objectives
Talking about trying things to see how they turn out.
Talking about making mistakes, failing.

6. Meeting Preparations
Objectives
    Giving people advice.
    Learning to give advice to people.
    Reviewing the -てしまう and -てみましょう patterns.

7. A Save-the-Trees Campaign
Objectives
Talking about changes taking place over a period of time.
Using relative clauses to describe people.

8. Sighseeing at Edo Village
Objectives
Mastering the passive form of verbs.

9. A Complicated Contract
Objectives
    Mastering the causative form of verbs.
    Mastering the formal language of business presentations.
   Reviewing the causative in everyday situations.

10. The Shinkansen
Objectives
Talking about imprevements in one's ability to do things.
Reviewing the -ようになる pattern

11. Anniversary Party
Objectives
Talking about doing things for other people.
Talking about getting things done by other people.

12. A Broken TV Set
Objectives
Talking about avoiding doing things.
Talking about resolutions that one has made.

13. A Thank You Phone Call
Objectives
Using formal language to express gratitude with humility and respect.
Learning how to make the polite form of ordinary verbs (verbs that do not have a special polite form).

14. Late for a Date
Objectives
    Using concessive clauses to talk about things not working out as you expected.
    Talking about being on the point of or about to do something.
    Reviewing sentences with -のに.

15. A Transfer, A Resignation
Objectives
Talking about official decisions.
Talking about personal decisions (a course of action decided on by you yourself).

16. Suzuki Caught Loafing
Objectives
Using the imprerative.

17. Weight Control
Objectives
    Talking about purpose.
   Using the passive as polite
    Reviewing expressions of people.

18. A Rock Concert
Objectives
Learning how young people speak.

19. "Floating-World" Pictures
Objectives
Learning to talk about reasons.

20. Edo-Period Education
Objectives
A review of the whole drama.

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