SPANISH ER VERBS CONJUGATION PRACTICE #5
**SPANISH ER VERBS CONJUGATION PRACTICE @ 55p EACH IN THE BUNDLE** *9 workbooks & tenses, present, perfect, preterite, imperfect, future, conditional, pluperfect, future perfect & conditional perfect tenses, 25 high-frequency Spanish ER verbs, 150 conjugation questions across 3 differentiated challenges, answer keys & verb lists, 1,350 conjugations in total*, ideal for ***advanced beginner KS3 Spanish*** students who are beginning to work with compound sentences and short texts to ***advanced level Spanish A Level students*** who are working with complex language and texts featuring a range of tenses, including ***authentic resources***, and generally developing their knowledge and understanding of conjugation, tense and mood in ***Spanish***.
***The tenses are:***
present *(presente)*
perfect *(perfecto compuesto)*
preterite *(pretérito)*
imperfect *(pretérito imperfecto)*
future *(futuro)*
conditional *(condicional)*
pluperfect *(pretérito pluscuamperfecto)*
future perfect *(futuro perfecto)*
conditional perfect *(condicional perfecto)*
Grammar books are not necessarily particularly consistent with grammatical terminology, for example the ***conditional perfect*** (condicional perfecto) is also called the ***conditional past*** in English. The English equivalent is ***I would have eaten*** for example.
My students really like this kind of grammar activity, as they like to work and learn independently, which is a successful way of varying teaching and learning methodologies - I've found it's really important to avoid predominantly teacher-led learning in the languages classroom. I move onto conjugation quite quickly in my language learning programmes, so that students can ***apply language practically and creatively***, which is essential for progressing in language learning, as well as ***consolidating language and grammatical concepts***.
***The workbooks focus on formation and conjugation, rather than usage***, though it’s definitely useful to remind students of a number of things when focusing on or revising tense and verb formation and conjugation. For example, language learners to often try to conflate what they know about conjugation in their first language, and the language they are learning, and with students with *English* as a first language I frequently see students learning the ***conditional tense*** getting a little confused by the absence of a ***direct equivalent of would***, before they really grasp that the ***notion of conditional is indicated in the verb stem + relevant pronoun ending***, which they may have already met when working with the ***future tense***, but need more practice with. In turn, they often mix up ***conditional tense and future tense endings***, so it can be really useful to introduce both tenses fairly simultaneously. In this way, students can ***compare and contrast*** verb endings, across a broader range of texts, including authentic resources, which really helps them consolidate learning. In my experience, students are able to move beyond any confusion between the two tenses really quickly.
Though the workbook focuses solely on the correct conjugation of verbs, and does not look at word order in the context of full sentences, there are ***conjugation patterns*** and specific rules for usage that students can ***learn, recognize and apply***, and begin to be able to ***predict accurately***, which in turn ensures that their ***spoken and written Spanish*** is accurate, and that their understanding of ***Spanish across the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing*** is robust. Students become very familiar and confident the more they work with conjugation, and these quick conjugations certainly help to embed that successfully.
The workbooks are really versatile, and I use them in a range of learning contexts, such as practice during the introductory phase, free-choice activity in class time, home learning or cover lessons. My students like to have several opportunities to go through the workbooks several times a semester across a whole school year - they find it really useful for mapping their progress and developing overall understanding and competence.
***Each set is structured as follows***:
*Two alphabetical verb reference lists*: Spanish-English and English-Spanish, useful for longer-term reference too
*Three differentiated conjugation challenges*, each with 50 individual conjugations:
***Conjugation Challenge 1***: each verb conjugated in Spanish across a range of pronouns, with students writing the corresponding English verb conjugation.
***Conjugation Challenge 2***: gives the infinitive of each verb in Spanish, specifying the target pronoun. Students write the corresponding verb conjugation in Spanish.
***Conjugation Challenge 3***: students write the corresponding Spanish verb conjugation, and its infinitive, from a Spanish prompt.
*Notes and Next Steps* template to encourage my students to reflect on their progress, and think about what they can reasonably and realistically do to meet learning targets and move on - we revisit the conjugations, and the Notes and Next Steps, regularly - sometimes students haven't quite embedded learning before it's time to move on, so revisiting for 10-minute 'chunks' is really popular with them. Students not any new verbs they learn, which in time builds into a really comprehensive verb vocabulary bank. We also use the Notes and Next Steps to inform, guide and focus whole-group discussion on learning and progress in general, which is a really popular activity.
*answer key* six pages in book format. Answer keys are essential for this kind of learning activity, as they do provide a really essential additional opportunity for students to engage with language, and my students prefer to work and learn independently, assessing their own progress, either individually, in pairs or in small groups. They're a great teacher time-saver too, which is always a good thing!
***Currently in my store I have Spanish conjugation workbooks for a range of verb groups featuring the following tenses:***
present *(presente)*
perfect *(perfecto compuesto)*
preterite *(pretérito)*
imperfect *(pretérito imperfecto)*
future *(futuro)*
conditional *(condicional)*
pluperfect *(pretérito pluscuamperfecto)*
future perfect *(futuro perfecto)*
conditional perfect *(condicional perfecto)*
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