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...
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...
