Length: Full Year 
Contact: Languages Leader 
 
Recommended Background 
Year 7 Spanish 

Course Description 
This Year 8 Spanish course builds students’ reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills from Year 7 while expanding their understanding of Spanish-speaking cultures. Students develop skills to engage in conversations, communicate information about themselves and their worlds, and create texts using modelled language. They also evaluate perspectives, reflect on their language learning, and explore the interrelationship between language and culture. 

Students will study topics such as: 

• Health  
• Festivals for example Carnaval 
• Present Tense Verbs 
• The Simple Future Tense 
• Travel  
• Free time and Hobbies  
• Life at school 

 
Assessment 
Year 8 Students are assessed according to the Spanish Achievement Standards outlined in the Australian Curriculum, with A-E Grades used for reporting. Assessment contains aspects of intercultural literacy; text creation; text analysis; grammar concepts; conversation and cultural investigation. 
 
Leads To 
Year 9 Spanish