Obento Supreme Student Book

Obento Supreme is the new taste sensation combining the best selling Obentoo 2 and Obentoo 3 into one concise and engaging text. Obento Supreme provides continuity between Obento Deluxe and Obento Senior and a manageable increase in the level of language difficulty.

The Obento Supreme Student Book features structured language lessons and a variety of authentic text types such as letters, emails and dialogue. Supported with stunning photographs, exciting manga cartoons and a fresh new magazine design, Obento Supreme will engage and stimulate students from the first page. The back of the Obento Supreme Student Book contains wordlists and additional grammar information.

About the Authors

Anne Fisher taught Japanese at Secondary level in Victoria for 20 years, and held a range of positions including LOTE, Curriculum and Human Resources Co-ordination in the schools where she worked. During that time, she was a State Reviewer and Examiner for Japanese for the Victorian Certificate of Education and a member of a number of committees developing both Japanese specific curriculum, and languages curriculum in Victoria. In 2003, she joined the Victorian Assessment and Curriculum Authority as a LOTE Project Officer and worked on the development of P – 10 languages curriculum and the revised Year 11 and 12 curricula for Japanese and other languages.

Ayako Fukunaga, educated at Kansai University of Foreign Studies, has worked as an English and Japanese teacher in Japan and Australia as first a language assistant and currently Head of Japanese at Firbank Grammar School. She has completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Japanese Interpreting and Translation at Monash University. And continues to develop professionally, with close ties with schools in Japan and a scholarship to Urawa, Saitama from the Japan Foundation.

Kyoko Kusumoto is a practising teacher of Japanese, and brings her expertise and enthusiasm for Japanese language and culture to the Obento Deluxe series. She is also co-author of Obento Supreme, the next level in the Obento series.

Jean Swinyard has taught in both the primary and secondary sectors, she has lectured in Japanese Teaching Methodology at Sydney Uni, at the University of Technology (Sydney) with the native speaker Graduate Diploma of Education program and with the Teaching Assistant Program at the Japan Foundation. At present, Jean is the Coordinator of the Nihongo Tanken Centre, a unique language learning facility which provides a Japanese immersion program to all levels K-12 open to both public and private schools.

Jacqueline Brown was a Coordinator and teacher of Japanese at Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne. Prior to this she was Head of LOTE and Japanese at Beaconhills College in Pakenham and Head of Japanese at St Paul's Anglican Grammar School in Warragul. During this time, Jacqueline has also been involved on the committee of the Japanese Language Teachers' Association of Victoria and represented them by presenting at the Japan Foundation Symposium on Japanese Language networks in Tokyo in 2001.