Subjunctive Essentials - The Bundle For The Spanish Classroom

This is a bundle of my favorite resources to teach the subjunctive tense to my students. I use all of these files with my Spanish III classes. Please read bellow for a detail description of each of these resources.

• Subjuntivo Introduction / Subjunctive:

This is an updated introduction packet that I use to first present the subjunctive to my students. This five page assessment, takes the students to a small review of the present tense. The first page explains the meaning, why and how to use the subjunctive in Spanish. In the answer sheet, you will find the definition of the subjunctive that after a few years of teaching, my students and I came up with. There are a few key words and sentences, that will help them get a better understanding of this mood.

Your students will find information about important rules. There are spaces for them to write down endings, conjugate irregular verbs, and a chart that will guide them step by step, so that they can form complete sentences using the subjunctive

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The third page is my favorite one! It presents the subjunctive as a wedding. My students easily make connections with the two clauses when they see them as the groom and the bride, who are united by a ring, in this case by a "que".

I use this worksheet as a reference during the whole subjunctive unite, and when they for example forget to write the "que" on a sentence I tell them "You are forgetting the ring" or there is not a "bride" on your sentence, and they quickly remember how to properly write it.

• Subjunctive Reference Guide

Stop repeating yourself about when to use the subjunctive, the endings, the irregulars, impersonal expressions... Do you hear me? and instead, give your students this two page reference guide, meant to be printed side by side and answer their questions by saying: "Look it up on our subjunctive reference guide!"

With this guide, your students will clearly be able to see what is the subjunctive, what does a sentence needs to have to have subjunctive in it, how to conjugate subjunctive verbs, the grammar rules, irregular, impersonal expressions, conjunctions and other expressions.

You may hand to your students in the beginning of your subjunctive unit the reference guide that is all done and complete for them, and some where in between your subjunctive unit or at the end, hand them the empty guide, (also included here) for them to complete in class to assess them and be able to see how much they have been studying and reviewing their subjunctive .

This file contains:

• A two page reference guide handout about the subjunctive tense in Spanish
• A two page reference guide handout that is empty and meant for studying to complete it on their own

• Subjunctive Subjuntivo Quiz / Assessment

This is a subjunctive quiz that can be also used as a test. It is three pages long.

1 & 2 - Students explain why and how we use subjunctive.

3 - Students conjugate verbs in the subjunctive

4 - Students match the beginning of sentences with the ending that best completes the sentence

* 5 - Students decide if the verb in parenthesis should be subjunctive or indicative. 10 sentences

* 5. Students finish the sentences with either subjunctive or indicative - 7 sentences.

* 6 - Students translate 6 sentences from english to spanish.

* 7 - Students write two sentences with the expression "Ojala que"

* 8 - Students write one sentence using a verb in the subjunctive.

• Spanish Subjunctive Project: Mi Visión Del Mundo

Get your students interested in demonstrating their mastery of subjunctive with this inspiring project.

Students are to make a poster where they create a collage of what their dreams, hopes and desires are for our world. They will need to match their collage to four sentences made with impersonal expressions such as: Es bueno que, es importante que, es necesario que, as well as four other sentences where they include other four subjunctive verbs in it.

I have them present this project as a gallery walk, and the posters they will come up with, will be so beautiful that if you are like me, you will probably post two or them in your classroom for the rest of the year. This a project that will let your class know what each of them are concern or passionate about when it comes to the wold that we live in.

This File Contains:

• The four page document of the project assignment
• A detail rubric of the expectations
• A page for students to draft their project
• A page for students to take notes about peers posters
• Detail instructions of how I use this in my class

• Spanish Subjunctive Project: Un Periódico Saludable

Allow your students to feel like the writers of a newspaper with this project where they are supposed to show their mastery of the subjunctive in Spanish, by creating and designing a newspaper in a tri fold, where they need to give advice to teenagers about how to live a healthy live style.

This is meant to be a partner activity, where most of the work should get done in class. They will need to talk about eating habits, meal options, physical activity and answer concerns and questions about to live a healthier live, from the point of view of someone their age. They will do all of this, by using impersonal expressions and subjunctive verbs.

This documents contains:

• A five page project packet. (Each section comes with detail examples)
• A rubric of the expectations
• A page for kids to take notes on their peers projects
• Detail instructions of how I use this in my class

• Subjunctive Speaking Task Cards

120 Subjunctive speaking task cards, will not only get your students to practice and feel more comfortable when using “El subjuntivo” but it will help them to differentiate the subjunctive from the indicative.

If your students are like mine, then you know that once they learn the subjunctive, they start using it with everything: Preterit, Imperfect, present tense, you name it. With this activity, you will really challenge your students to use the subjunctive, only, when talking about hypothetical future, and not with everything else. Bonus Points: They will be practicing the subjunctive, as well as reviewing other concepts such as “tener + que + infinitive”, “Ir + a”, expressions of time: always, siempre, nunca, etc.