Spanish Interactive Exercises -- Present Tense of Regular -er Verbs

A set of 11 exercises to help students get a solid foundation in Spanish verb meanings and conjugations. Self-checking individually paced learning that really makes differentiation a snap -- and that promotes true mastery of the language!


INTEGRATE WORD MEANINGS WITH GRAMMAR TO PROMOTE TRUE COMPREHENSION INSTEAD OF ROTE LEARNING

When students are practicing conjugations, they should at the same time be acquiring the MEANING of the words they are using. What sense does it make to have them write charts of rompo, rompes, rompe, etc, when they don't know what the words MEAN?

My exercises are designed to constantly reinforce the meaning of the conjugated forms. As students advance through the exercises they will master increasing numbers of word meanings, and all the while, they have been acquiring the target conjugations as well.


TARGET SPECIFIC TROUBLE AREAS THAT LEARNERS STRUGGLE WITH

No matter what textbook I used, the book always took for granted that students would understand when to use the nosotros versus the ellos/Uds. forms. You probably know that students have HUGE difficulty in figuring out which form is needed in any given plural situation. Sure, they'll use the ellos form when the sentence says "ellos," and they can handle a simple nosotros, too, but what about when the sentence says "Marta y Luis," or "Maria y yo," or "Los profesores y Ud.?"

Sentences like that would absolutely baffle my students until we started doing massive practice sets on how to know when you need a nosotros versus an ellos/ellas/Uds. form.

But these exercises take care of that for you! I built them that way from the start so that students would have tons of practice in recognizing real-life subjects -- which as we know, do not always consist of the pure subject pronouns.

So yes, sometimes the exercises cue them with "Ella," but sometimes they use a name or a title (La alumna) or even a non-person noun when the verb is suitable (El libro...). And when it comes to the plural forms, students will work with complex subjects from the start: Maria Elena y tú, El director y los estudiantes. Tú y yo. Uds. y yo. Juan, Elena, y Teresa.

Etc, etc, etc.


This exercise set has a special multiple-choice section that requires students to focus on when they would need the nosotros or the ellos forms for complex subjects.


THE NITTY-GRITTY: HOW THESE SPANISH INTERACTIVE EXERCISES WORK

All exercises are computer based and designed to run in any web browser. All you have to do (as explained in the included Read Me file) is copy the exercise set to a computer's hard drive and double click on the START HERE file!