This booklet + presentation (more than 130 slides!) cover the ten most important verb tenses for GCSE Spanish, from the present tense through to Higher Tier structures (Grade 7-9), followed by five mixed-tense challenges for students aiming for the top grades.

Answers provided.

Structure of Each Tense

• When is it used?

• Regular verbs

• Irregular verbs

• Exercise 1 — Verb Tense Detective

• Exercise 2 — Complete the Sentences: conjugate the verb in brackets.

• Exercise 3 — Translation Ladder

• Exercise 4 (Stretch) — an optional fourth task on some tenses

The Ten Core & Higher Tenses

• 1. El Presente

• 2. El Pretérito (Pretérito Perfecto Simple)

• 3. El Imperfecto

• 4. El Futuro Próximo

• 5. El Futuro (Futuro Simple)

• 6. El Condicional

• 7. El Presente Continuo

• 8. El Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto

• 9. El Presente de Subjuntivo (Higher Tier)

• 10. El Pluscuamperfecto (Higher Tier)

The Five Mixed-Tense Challenges

The challenge section at the end of the booklet asks students to combine two tenses in the same piece of writing.

• 1. Present & Past — Contrasting life now with life before

• 2. Present & Future — Routines now, plans ahead

• 3. Preterite & Imperfect — Background description and interrupting action

• 4. Future & Conditional — Real predictions vs. polite hypotheses

• 5. Subjunctive + Conditional — Hypothetical "if" sentences — si pudiera, iría...

A lesson containing booklet in pdf + companion presentation, with answers, to revise 6 core tenses for Spanish GCSE (present, preterite, imperfect, near future, simple future, conditional).