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The Present & Imperfect Progressive
Starting off with present participles, this resource tackles the progressive with grammatical explanations, examples in English and Spanish, and an interactive practice exercise. Use the menu at the top of the webpage to navigate to each...
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El presente perfecto
Are you looking for a way to introduce the present perfect to your Spanish class? This reference guide is perfect! First it explains when we use the present perfect. There's a verb conjugation chart, several examples, and clear...
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El presente perfecto
Review the present perfect with your intermediate Spanish class, and give them this practice sheet. If learners finish early, have them translate sentences you've written in English into Spanish.
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Los participios irregulares: el presente perfecto
Looking for a reference guide to equip your learners with as they explore the irregular past participles in the perfect tense? First there's a chart that contains 12 irregulars and their meaning, and then there are example sentences to...
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Past Participle: Participles in present perfect
Is your class familiar with past participles? While reading the short paragraph provided on a trip to Disney World, beginning Spanish speakers conjugate the verbs in parentheses. Use this as a ticket to class to ensure all kids do their...
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Los participios irregulares (El presente perfecto)
Provide your intermediate to advanced Spanish class with practice using irregular participles in the present perfect tense. Simple fill-in-the-blank sentences are provided here, but consider providing a few sentences in English and...
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Le Passé Composé
When do you use le passé composé? This short presentation is easy to read and details when one uses either avoir or etre. Several examples are given, along with a list of time expressions (avant, hier, etc.), but a practice opportunity...
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Perfect Tenses
As you explore the perfect tenses, direct your class to this resource, which provides explanation and examples for reference as well as an online interactive exercise for practice. They can first read up on haber and either continue...
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Fun With Past Participles
High schoolers read and discuss an article about the environment, identifying the past participles in the article. They write questions about the article and interview other students.
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Spanish Diminutives, Augmentatives, and More…
Teach your kiddies how to create diminutives and augmentatives in Spanish. They'll soon be adding -ito and -ita to every noun they can! Diminutives and augmentatives are much more common in Spanish, so there are many examples included...
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Other Tenses in the Subjunctive Mood
After your class has mastered the present and past subjunctive, allow them to explore additional tenses in the subjunctive mood. The resource covers how to conjugate the present perfect, pluperfect, and future subjunctive. Practice is...
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Calligrammes Project
Use Guillaume Apollinaire's famous series of Calligrammes to inspire quirky poetry by your French students. Expand the idea behind this project to create a plan tailored to your Francophiles and their current studies, or spend time...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using the Present Progressive Tense
Present progressives describe an action in progress, or something that started in the past and is still happening. It is formed with the helping "to be" verb in the present tense and the present participle of the verb. [0:42]
Language Guide
Participles
Site discusses formation of present participle and past participle (regular and irregular). Provides Sample phrases in both English and French to illustrate usage. Has a link at the end for interactive practice. Tons of other languages...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Past Participle
View pictures and answer the questions relating to the picture in either the present perfect tense or using the past participle as an adjective. Click the "?" if you are uncertain about an answer.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Present Perfect
A straightforward explanation of how the present perfect tense is formed with a printer-friendly page that is great for note keeping. One free online quiz and test evaluate mastery.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Present Perfect Tense
Review examples and then complete three online exercises dealing with the present perfect tense. English translations are provided for some of the examples. The first exercise provides verb infinitives as cues for the present perfect...
University of Texas at Austin
Ut Austin: Introduction to French Verbs
Excellent overview of French verbs! Defines a verb, introduces the concepts of infinitives, conjugations (with sample), common auxiliaries and modals, transitive vs. intransitive and the formation of present and past participles - all in...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture
Colby College provides a large collection of exercises on adjectives, adverbs, numbers, prepositions, clauses, study modules, and more.
Language Guide
Language Guide: El Participio Pasado
This grammar tutorial explains the formation of the past participle for ar/er/ir verbs as well as some irregular forms. A couple of examples are given to show the formation of the present perfect.
Columbia University
The Imparfait vs. the Passe Compose Ii
This site from London's Transport Museum provides a series of six exercises covering Le Passe Compose (Avoir and Etre), L?Imparfait, Le Present, Le Futur, Le Conditionnel. Students can print out their answers to check them, and they are...
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Francais Interactif
This full-featured interactive textbook encounter utilizes French speakers in real life scenarios. Well structured for work on grammatical concepts (links to Tex's French Grammar), vocabulary, listening comprehension and exposure to...