Are you looking for a community building speaking activity while practicing the Preterite Tense? This is a great interactive activity for levels Spanish 3 or higher for the first couple months of school or if your theme is about verano. This activity promotes positive communication among the students in the class.This would be a good review for the upper level classes who need to know the present, past and future tenses for the Seal of Biliteracy test.

ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages

• Interpersonal Communication: Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
• Interpretive Communication: Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
• Presentational Communication: Learners present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.

This eight page PDF-only resource includes different versions with various levels of support. You can decide how much prompting your students may need.

• Page 1 - Instructions on how to do the activity and several ideas for variation
• Page 2 - Questions in the tú form to practice interpersonal speaking
• Page 3 - Questions in the tú form with prompts in the yo form to practice interpersonal speaking
• Page 4 - Sheet to write sentences about their classmates for interpersonal writing (no prompting)
• Page 5 - Sheet with the verb charts in the él/ella form and ellos/ellas forms as support to write the sentences to practice presentational writing
• Page 6 - Sheet with the verbs already conjugated in the él/ella form forms as highly-structured support to write the sentences to practice presentational writing
• Page 7 - Thank you and other resources
• Page 8 - Credits, terms of use and contact information