Cengage Learning EMEA Obento Supreme Teacher Toolkit

The Obento series is the market-leading Japanese series for Years 7–10 students in Australia. This fifth edition is revised and updated with greater explicit alignment to The Australian Curriculum: Japanese, greater support for the acquisition of Japanese script, streamlined and high-calibre digital content and a more cohesive 7–10 series. This wrap-around text provides structured and explicit connections to The Australian Curriculum: Japanese, saving teachers' time and supporting those less experienced or new to the series. At the back of the text are workbook pages with overprinted solutions and audio transcripts from the workbook. Also included on the NelsonNet website, are unit tests and solutions, worksheets, PowerPoint presentations and curriculum grids. NelsonNet resources available* Teacher Resources: • Includes all student resources • Chapter PDFs • Grammar PowerPoint presentations • Workbook solutions (PDFs) • Worksheets and solutions • Curriculum grids • Audio and video transcripts • Tests and solutions Student Resources: • Animated cartoon stories • Play and say vocab • Videos# • Language and script quizzes • Student book audio • Workbook audio and videos# *Complimentary access to NelsonNet is available to teachers who use the accompanying student book as a core resource in their classroom. Contact your local education consultant for access codes and conditions. #Available with purchase of Obento Supreme WB only. About the Author Kyoko is an experienced Japanese teacher of long standing. Over a period of two decades she has taught the Japanese language to primary and secondary students, including mature age students. Kyoko currently teaches at Santa Sabina College, Sydney, NSW and has extensive experience as Senior Marker, Supervisor of Marking and as a judge of HSC NSW. She has served as a committee member and presenter for the Japanese Teachers' Association, JTAN, has completed a Masters in Education, and has qualifications in NAAFTI Japanese translation and interpreting. Before her teaching career, Kyoko was an editor of children's educational books in Japan and her extensive educational experience has been invaluable in her role as co-author of both the Obento Deluxe and Supreme series. Anne has taught Japanese in secondary schools in Victoria for two decades, and held a range of leadership positions in schools. She joined the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority in 2003 working in the Languages Curriculum area. She was the National Co-ordinator of the Collaborative Curriculum and Assessment Framework for Languages, and has been involved in national languages curriculum and student course placement policy review. Since then she has worked with ACARA on the development of an Asia-aware national curriculum as Australian Curriculum Strategy Manager at the Asia Education Foundation, The University of Melbourne. She is now following her interests in painting and botanical art, and Languages teaching and learning. Naoko Nishikawa has extensive teaching experience in primary and secondary classrooms at government and independent Victorian schools. She co-wrote and validated the Australian Curriculum: F–10 Japanese and has developed a number of digital resources for Japanese. She is currently teaching at Haileybury College. Ayako has worked extensively as an English and Japanese teacher, both in Japan and Australia. Ayako is currently teaching Japanese at Bentleigh Secondary College, where she is Head of the LOTE Department. She has previously worked both at independent and government schools, and is an experienced VCE examiner. She has completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Japanese Interpreting and Translation at Monash University. Ayako continues to develop her professional skills through close ties with schools in Japan and a scholarship to Urawa, Saitama, from the Japan Foundation. Jean has taught in both the primary and secondary sectors and has lectured in Japanese teaching me