1. Paper: GCSE Japanese Listening Higher Tier (1JA0/1H), 2020; total 50 marks, with all questions in English; two-part format assessing authentic audio comprehension

2. Topics: accommodation welcome messages, family roles and studies, bilingual school systems, environmental campaigns, Japanese language study motivations, forestry careers, and school exchanges

3. Task formats: multiple choice, sentence completion, word gap-fill, matching, box selection, and open-response questions using key details from the recordings

4. Cultural themes: Kamakura beach culture, exchange with a Japanese school, volunteer fundraising for the Red Cross, Red Cross actions in Asia, and traditional musical performance appeals

5. Skill focus: listening for gist and detail, inference, identifying purpose and context, emotional tone, social cues, and vocabulary use in real-life Japanese environments

6. Highlighted question types:
– match descriptive adjectives to experiences
– complete interview summaries (e.g. forestry job satisfaction, computer use, traditional knowledge)
– extract environmental advice from speeches (e.g. air con, reusable items, events)