QCAA Spanish case studies
QCAA Spanish · Put your knowledge to work in context.
QCAA Spanish is a senior secondary Spanish course and assessment program offered in Queensland schools under the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority. It is designed for students who want to use Spanish to communicate in real situations, interpret authentic texts, and create their own written and spoken responses - not simply to memorise grammar tables. The QCAA Spanish case studies are 5 cases and about 2,126 words.
1Register shift in a formal complaint email
You are completing a written assessment for a school exchange to Chile. Your host family's landlord has not repaired a broken heater for 18 days despite three verbal requests, and the family asks you to draft an email to the property agency.
484 words, about 2 min2Sarcasm and inference in a Chilean film dialogue
In a listening task you hear a short dialogue from a Chilean film. A mother says to her adult son: 'Claro, hijo, tú siempre tan responsable.
379 words, about 2 min3Adapting a persuasive text for two audiences
Your class runs a campaign to reduce single-use plastic at a coastal town in Spain. You have written a 150-word persuasive text for teenagers that opens with '¿Sabes que cada año acaban en el mar millones de bolsas?' and uses imperatives ('¡Actúa ya!') and rhetorical questions.
425 words, about 2 min4Cohesion and tense control in a personal narrative
You are writing a 120-word narrative in Spanish for a portfolio, titled 'El día que me perdí en Sevilla'. Your draft mixes tenses: 'Ayer me pierdo en el centro.
426 words, about 2 min5Cultural pragmatics of an invitation refusal
You are in Spain as an exchange student. A classmate, Marta, invites you to her birthday lunch on Sunday at her family home, saying 'Ven, que mi madre hace una paella increíble'.
412 words, about 2 min