Building a narrative in Chinese: sequence, cause and reaction.
These are the statements the Chinese Year 9 syllabus makes about Telling Stories. 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.
The particle 了 in narrative - Telling Stories, Year 9.
The particle 着 for continuing states - Telling Stories, Year 9.
Connectors: 先, 然后, 最后 - Telling Stories, Year 9.
Describing feelings - Telling Stories, Year 9.
The 是...的 construction - Telling Stories, Year 9.
Reading a short story - Telling Stories, Year 9.
Summarising a story - Telling Stories, Year 9.
Writing an anecdote - Telling Stories, Year 9.
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Telling Stories 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 Chinese Year 9 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.
Telling Stories is module 3 of 3 in Chinese Year 9. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Chinese Year 9 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.