Searching for Spanish Verbs for "Grab" or "Take"
Get a grip on verbs having to do with actions performed by our hands! Both English and Spanish have a multitude of verbs with as many nuances about …
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How to Say "to have fun" in Spanish
Are you uncertain how to say ‘having fun’ in Spanish? Please, please read this and learn it… Avoid a very common mistake!
Continue ReadingHow to Teach Spanish Reflexive Object Pronouns
Do your beginning Spanish students get confused about reflexive object pronouns and try to use them as subjects? That is, do you hear them say …
Continue ReadingTeaching Spanish Double Object Pronouns
Does it seem that as soon as most students begin to understand how to use direct object pronouns and understand indirect and reflexive object …
Continue ReadingHow to Teach the Spanish Superlative
After students have learned to describe and compare equal or unequal things, they are ready to learn how to say something is the best or worst, the …
Continue ReadingSpanish Lesson Plan: How to Introduce Indirect Object Pronouns
After learning or being exposed to direct object pronouns, most students are soon exposed to indirect object pronouns. Their first difficulty is …
Continue ReadingSpanish Color Song and Game to Teach Students Color Words in Spanish
American Kindergarteners can learn to read color words in Spanish as well as in English. Here you will find the colors (los colores) song, and a …
Continue ReadingTeaching Unequal Comparisons in Spanish
The grammatical and lexical tools of this lesson will enable students of Spanish to verbalize their observations about the world in ways that parallel …
Continue ReadingThe Difference Between the Imperfect Indicative and the Conditional in Spanish
Somewhere in the latter part of the first year of study, students begin to get “morphological” cobwebs in their brain. Strange hybrid …
Continue ReadingUnderstanding the Compound (or Perfect) Tenses in Spanish
The compound tenses, also known as the perfect tenses, are the ones formed with the tenses of “haber” plus a past participle. This lesson …
Continue ReadingSpanish Lesson Plan for Teaching the Progressive
From a Spanish perspective, English overuses the progressive. Nevertheless, teaching students how the progressive is formed in Spanish can be eye …
Continue ReadingA Lesson Plan for How to Use Por and Para
This pair of prepositions causes a great deal of trouble for English speaking students of Spanish. No doubt about it: they can be problematic, but …
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