Technology, environment, work and social change, and the arguments people make about them.
These are the statements the Japanese Continuers syllabus makes about The Changing World. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Digital life, social media and changing communication, and the vocabulary that has entered the language recently.
Environmental issues and responses, and the language of cause, consequence and responsibility.
Employment, study pathways and economic change, including the terms used in job applications and interviews.
How schooling and tertiary study are organised in the language area, and comparing them with Australia.
The effect of globalisation on language and culture, and the arguments for and against openness.
Contemporary debates, and the language needed to enter them without overstating or evading.
The concerns attributed to young people, and the difference between how they describe themselves and how they are described.
How a newspaper article, opinion piece or advertisement persuades, and the rhetorical devices specific to the language.
HSC Japanese Continuers - Written Paper Shape is 100 marks in 150 minutes. Questions on The Changing World are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Japanese Continuers uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
The Changing World is module 3 of 4 in Japanese Continuers. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Japanese Continuers dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.