Holidays and Travel
Talking about trips past and planned, with the preterite and future.
- Travel vocabulary and destinations
- The preterite of regular verbs
- Irregular preterites: ir, ser, tener, hacer
NSW Spanish Years 7-10 (Stage 5, Year 9) - travel, health, past events - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Spanish Year 9” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Talking about trips past and planned, with the preterite and future.
Symptoms, advice and routine, with doler and reflexive verbs.
Building a narrative: preterite and imperfect, setting and events.
A Spanish Year 9 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| apply | Short answer | 3–4 |
| compose | Short answer | 3–5 |
| compose | Extended response | 4–6 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| translate | Short answer | 2–3 |
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.