¡Hola! Thanks for using our resources. This PDF worksheet can be the base for an interesting conversation cards activity to help students practice the main vocabulary and structures to talk about the past in Spanish. This material was designed for group work as a way to encourage speaking (habla) in the classroom and get the best out of this topic.
Directions:
Students form groups of four to participate in this speaking activity.
Each group of students gets a copy of the PDF worksheet. First, they must cut out the conversations cards, which include beautiful drawings and questions about people’s past in Spanish, such as: place of birth, activities they used to do when they were kids, things they learned or did at a given time, and so on. Students must form a deck with the help of their classmates, shuffle it and take turns to draw a card, and then answer the question about their past. Each student must speak for at least 30 seconds, otherwise the card must be returned to the deck. The student who speaks for 30 seconds straight using the right vocabulary and structures for the simple past (changing verb endings correctly) will keep the card. The student who holds the most cards by the end of the game wins.
Spanish worksheet information:
Level: Intermediate
Skill: Speaking
Related Lessons:
- Regular and Irregular Verbs in the Past Tense in Spanish
- The Imperfect Past Tense in Spanish: Rules and Audio Examples
- Talking about Last Weekend in Spanish
- Talking about Past Events and Inventions in Spanish
A brief story of my life in Spanish
Students try to make a believable past simple story of their life in Spanish. They should work individually and try to add as many details as possible about childhood memories, activities they did recently or an interesting anecdote they would like to tell their friends. As a rule for the activity, they must add a make-believe statement to their story somewhere so that their classmates have the chance to guess which of the facts that they shared is untrue. Each student must come in front of the class and speak for 1 minute, tell his/her story and their classmates make three attempts to guess what the false piece of information is.