This is an easy little listening practice that can be used as a warm up for a French I class that is learning ALLER + place and ALLER + action. Students match 9 pictures to their descriptions. Includes listening script. Knowledge of basic regular verbs and some cognate destinations would be helpful.

A really difficult very tense for students to integrate into their spoken vocabulary, this A-B partner practice has students asking their partners what they would do under a certain set of circumstances. Best suited for a Level IV or V AP class, this exerise is also fun for Heritage Language Speaker students who seldom get the practice they need in past subjunctive tense. Takes about 15-20 minutes to run in class and you will enjoy sharing out some of their answers large group afterwards to hear how they responded.

Suitable for level III or higher after learning the basics of Future tense conjugation. Quiz is 34 points, has a verb chart, fill in the blanks, finish the sentences (open ended) and answer the questions. Takes about 20 min to complete.

Working on Imperfect tense and childhood vocabulary? This 25 question grid gets students moving around the rooming interviewing classmates using the imperfect tense. Students ask the questions and try to find one each student can answer. They record their answer and have the student initial the box. First student to get all their boxes signed by different classmates wins. This activity works best if you model how to interview with a student volunteer. Penalty for speaking English if you catch them. All questions are in the imperfect and link habitual childhood activities to imperfect tense. Activity takes about 20 minutes to run in a large class and is best suited to Spanish II or higher who have studied formation of imperfect. You could easily follow this up with a discussion in group asking students to share specific pieces of information (name of favourite toy, what they were afraid of etc)

This 50 verb conjugation quiz is useful for a higher level Spanish class where students have already learned all the irregular verb forms in the preterite. I give this quiz several times to students over the course of a week and then let them choose which score to take for credit. Quiz should take no longer than 15-20 minutes since students have multiple opportunities to better their scores. I do not return any copies of the quizzes until the last day when they choose which one to submit. Download contains an answer key and I allow students to check their own work as fixing the errors helps them to unlearn bad patterns.

This A/B partner practice has students reading short statements about some problems they might have and the other partner makes recomendations on how to resolve the issue using an impersonal expression from the list and verbs in the subjunctive tense. Practice works best for a level III or higher class where students have been working with the subjunctive and are familiar with how to form regular and irregular verbs. Takes about 15 minutes to run in pairs and answers can be shared out in large group following.

This is an entry level worksheet to accompany vocabulary for furniture, parts of the house, and chores. Students inventory their homes for various items and answer questions as to who is responsible for tasks around the house. This assignment works well in the early days of a unit on housework, house parts and chores and is good for either levels I or 2. You can use their answers in class to create discussion or form comparisons based on their results.

This little comparison activity works great as a warm up or reinforcement when working with comparisons and numbers. (Plus de, moins de and autant de) Students tally up their candies and then make some comparisons between the colors, then they compare their candies to a classmates. Teacher needs to provide a small cup of M & M's or similar candies to each student. (I use dixie bathroom cups) Students enjoy the activity and when finished, eating the results. Works well for French I or intro students who can count to 20 and know their colors.

This handout is useful for students who have seen Tu commands before and need extra practice or who are re-visiting them after some time away. It contains notes and guides students through the formation of both positive and negative tu commands, lists the irregular positive command verb forms and reviews spell change/stem change issues in the negative. There are 38 practice examples, 20 positive, 18 negative and they are linked to vocabulary based primarily on house and chores.

Getting ready to start a unit on Pablo Neruda? I use this worksheet to review students prior knowledge of poetry terminology while giving them the terminology vocabulary in Spanish. If you have a basic DVD in your schools library on English poetry, you can use this to accompany it, but its not required, and students can complete the terms with you in class. I created this after slogging through poetry for a couple of seasons while having to re-teach students necessary terms. It made a big difference at how quickly they were able to apply similar skills to poems in Spanish.

This game pits students in the room against each other with a different partner every round. Students compete to come up first with the right answer and then everyone rotates chairs after each round. Powerpoint comes with instructions for teachers and a slide of instructions for students, 7 slides of SER vs ESTAR examples and answers for a 28 round game. Kids bounce around the room until a winner returns to their seat winning. Great fun, no non participators and all you do is run the mouse and discuss the answers when necessary. Game takes about 30 minutes to play.

An easy handout to accompany introduction of TENER and associated expressions. I copy this blackline onto coloured cardstock and 3 hole punch so students can refer to it in their binders.

This is a short quiz for students to use interrogatives. 24 questions and answers where students choose the correct interrogative word from the word bank (no definitions) to logically complete the question. Questions are all written in present tense using basic vocabulary typical of Spanish I curriculum. Quiz would work for Spanish I or as a review for Spanish II. Answer key also included.

For students having difficulty trying to decide if the action should use a reflexive verb or not. This mini practice or quiz contains 20 practice sentences for students to read, decide and circle their answers. No production of verbs required, just a good opener for discussion on why you cant eat yourself for breakfast.

This 25 point quiz on telling time covers all skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing all about time. Answer key included.

3 pages of notes and practice on conjugation and usage of the verb IR. Practices include a section with A, A LA and AL to introduce students to contractions. Sentence translations, verb conjugations, best suited for Spanish I or as extra practice for individual students.

Do you ever have students who ask you for names of animals? Or are your students getting ready to write a fairy tale using preterite/imperfect and have never learned the animals? Giant list grouped by category that you can print out and give to them so they can choose which animals get to star in their story.

This partner activity reviews prices in the hundreds with food items and takes 10-15 minutes to run in class. Each partner has 8 items to inquire about and 8 items to offer pricing. A good review or warm up activity or useful if you happen to be studying food vocabulary at the moment.

40 point quiz on positive and negative commands in all forms focusing on basic conjugation of regular and irregular verbs in command forms. Answer key is included.

This download will print onto Standard office mailing labels. There is a wide variety of clock times in Spanish and with numbers for students to match up. There are 6 rounds to the game, just print out the labels, stick them on colored notecards ( 1 sheet of labels for each color of notecards) and you have 5 sets of puzzles kids can use in class to race against each other. Rotate the puzzles after each round and practice telling time for 30 minutes! There is even a challenge round where clock times are given using military times. Great for practice after students have been working with telling time for a couple of days or as a review before the quiz. You can also use each deck for students to play MEMORY in small groups at tables, or as flashcard study aids for students who need extra practice. REMINDER: YOU WILL NEED TO LOAD AVERY 5160 size mailing labels to get these to print properly!