Understanding Questions in Spanish

Although you'll have to search the database for the accompanying handout, this resource could easily stand alone. Your Spanish speakers are starting to gain comfort in asking and answering questions. First they read the question in its...

Using the five examples provided, Spanish language learners discover the easy way to break down a question and understand what it's asking. They practice finding the question word, finding the verb, and finding the subject of the...

When the perspective changes in a question, the verb form has to change, too. Give your learners this PowerPoint print-out, and identify questions that have a perspective change. The last slide asks the learner to change the verb forms...

Are your beginning Spanish speakers learning how to form questions? This instructional activity contains two exercises related to interrogatives; the first exercise requires the learner to translate the interrogative into its English...

In just two and a half minutes, teach your class how to ask where someone is from and respond to the same question. The instructor explains how to ask where someone is from formally and informally and includes examples with amusing...

There are several ways to ask someone how they are in Spanish, and many ways to respond. Acquaint your class with some basic conversational phrases that all relate to asking someone how they are, and responding to that same question. The...

A trip to la panaderia leads to many more questions with an entertaining song about question words. Focusing on the question words quién, cómo, cuánto, and cuándo, the Spanish song and worksheet guide beginning learners through an...

Under what conditions would your Spanish language learners use the conditional? They can find out here, and practice their new knowledge with the linked exercise. There is information about regular and irregular conditional verbs as well...

There are many different types of pronouns used in Spanish for various purposes. If your class has mastered subject pronouns, object pronouns, and reflexive pronouns, perhaps they are ready to learn about prepositional pronouns. You can...

Instruct your class on how to put together a sentence in Spanish. The resource covers the different parts of speech, showing how the Spanish version of each sentence compares with the English version. While there are no procedures...