Curated OER
Que tiempo hace?
Practice answering the Spanish question, "Que tiempo hace?" with this colorful PowerPoint. It outlines the correct sentence structure, as well as presenting multiple examples to help answer the question. The last slide includes four...
Curated OER
Time Worksheet-on the Hour
Use this as an introduction to telling time in Spanish. Your beginning Spanish speakers match 10 digital and analog clocks with the Spanish time expression. Include some oral practice through call-and-response to reinforce the new...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Preterites Irregular Meanings
Practice using verbs that change their meaning in the preterite tense: conocer, saber, querer, tener, and poder. Complete translations from English to Spanish by choosing the correct form of a verb in the preterite or imperfect. Answers...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: El Preterito Formas (Part 3)
These Colby College exercises provide a very extensive review of irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the preterite tense. Change present tense conjugations to preterite tense. Answers may be checked and corrected.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: El Preterito Formas (Part 4)
These exercises provide a very extensive review of irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the preterite tense. Provides practice in the third person plural form in preparation for the imperfect subjunctive. Answers may...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Preterite and Imperfect (Part 1)
Great exercise for practicing the preterite and imperfect tenses. Choose the correct form of a verb to complete sentences that tell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Immediate feedback corrects the answer and gives the reason...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Preterite and Imperfect (Part 2)
Great exercise for practicing the preterite and imperfect tenses. Provide the correct form of verb infinitives that complete the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Immediate feedback corrects the answer. Correlates to another...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Subjunctive Adverb Clauses (Part 2)
Students practice using the present subjunctive, the present indicative, or the infinitive after certain conjunctions. This exercise helps fortify the use of the subjunctive in adverbial clauses. Answers may be checked and corrected.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Present Subjunctive Forms (Part 1)
Completion of these thirty clauses provide a very extensive review of regular and irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the present subjunctive tense. Verb infinitives are provided that need to be conjugated in the...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Present Subjunctive Forms (Part 2)
Completion of these twenty-four clauses provide an extensive review of regular and irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the present subjunctive tense. Verb infinitives are provided that need to be conjugated in the...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Subjunctive Noun Clauses #4
This exercise practices the present subjunctive with verbs of influence: aconsejar, decir, insistir, mandar, necesitar, pedir, preferir, prohibir, querer, recomendar, rogar, and sugerir. An English translation is provided as a foundation...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Subjunctive With Commands
Hear a "tu" command and complete the indirect command with the correct form of the verb in the present subjunctive. Answers may be checked and corrected.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Subjunctive Verbs of Emotion
With the English translation as a guide, the student completes the Spanish equivalent by conjugating the verb of emotion into the present indicative and the verb in the noun clause into the present subjunctive. Good practice for spelling...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Preterite and Imperfect Tense
Great exercise for practicing the preterite and imperfect tenses. Choose the correct form of a verb to complete sentences that tell the story of Superman. Immediate feedback corrects the answer and gives the reason for its application in...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Preterite vs Imperfect Part Ii
Great lesson for identifying words and phrases that indicate which past tense to use, preterite or imperfect. Though not meant to be a comprehensive lesson on the application of these two past tenses, the two lists of time expressions...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: El Preterito Formas (Part 2)
These exercises review irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the preterite tense. Conjugate verbs to match the subject. Answers may be checked and corrected.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Se for Unplanned or Unexpected Events
In this brief exercise, the student chooses the best Spanish expression to complete each sentence. Feedback on the response is immediate. Great review of third person preterite tense forms. Practices the use of "se" and an indirect...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: The Windy City (Reading Comprehension)
A series of exercises about the weather in Chicago that tests reading comprehension of Spanish-speaking ELLs. Instructions are in Spanish; exercises and readings in English.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Preterite Tense
These exercises from Colby College provide a very extensive review of irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the preterite tense for more than 50 verbs. Practice conjugating these verbs in verb charts. Answers may be...
Languages Online
Languages Online: El Efecto De Mal Tiempo
Practice conjugating verbs in the preterite or imperfect tense in the context of weather. After filling in the blanks in this news story, you may check your answers.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Antes Del Viaje (Peterite Tense)
This review of regular and irregular Spanish verbs features charts for the preterite tense, including stem-changers and spelling changes.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: El Preterito Formas (Part 1)
These exercises provide a very extensive review of irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the preterite tense. Conjugate verbs to match the subject. Answers may be checked and corrected.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: El Preterito Y El Imperfecto
This exercise for practicing the preterite and imperfect tenses has you watch a video of a hotel receptionist who describes a frightening experience on the job. Then you complete the story by filling in blanks with preterite and...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Present Subjunctive Forms (Part 3)
Completion of these twenty-four clauses provides an extensive review of regular and irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the present subjunctive tense. Verb infinitives are provided that need to be conjugated in the...