Durante las vacaciones - During the holidays: using the preterite. (Back to school activity)

This is a resource to practise the use of the preterite tense to talk about holidays activities. It is ideal for the first lesson after the summer break for GCSE students.
There are eight activities:

1. verbs revision: find how to say in Spanish twelve verbs in the first person singular of the preterite tense.
2. during the holidays: students read a series of sentences (all in the preterite and using the verbs from activity one) and decide how often they did them during the holidays.
3. opinions: decide whether the opinions are positive, negative or neutral.
4. write five sentences using the language from activities 1, 2 and 3.
5. verb practice: change the verbs in activity one into the second person singular.
6. questions: using the vebs in activity 5, write five questions for a partner about their holiday activities.
7. speaking: interview a partner to find how often the partner did those activities during the holidays.
8. extension: write five sentences about the partner’s holidays activities.
   Finally, the last page of the resource includes a reminder of how to conjugate the preterite tense.