Telling Time in Spanish Lesson Plans and Activities

If you are working on telling with your students, there’s a lot of options you could use in your lessons. I thought I’d share a round up of resources, lesson plans, videos, and more you could use throughout your unit to reinforce this skill with these telling time in Spanish lesson plans & activities!

Real-World Practice with Telling Time in Spanish Lesson Plans

One of my favorite ways to make telling time in Spanish lesson plans come alive is by incorporating real-life scheduling tasks. Have students create a mini daily schedule in Spanish, complete with clock times and full sentences. Not only does this reinforce the structure of time-telling, but it also gives students a reason to use new vocabulary in a way that feels personal and useful.

Want to make it even more fun? Turn it into a pair or small group activity. One student reads out a daily routine and the others have to draw a timeline or fill in a chart with matching clock faces. You can easily scale this up for more advanced students or keep it simple for beginners. The key is giving them repeated exposure to the format without it feeling repetitive. With the right telling time in Spanish lesson plans, you are not just practicing numbers—you are building real communication skills.

Lesson Plan for Telling Time in Spanish

Here’s how to use this short story with your classes:

1. Complete a pre-reading activity to practice with numbers.
2. Work with the story – read out loud, independently, or in pairs
3. Students do comprehension activities
4. Check for their understanding
5. Play Mi Lápiz with the story lines

This resource includes a short reading about a girl who is trying to get ready for school in time, but is having some trouble getting ready. The reading includes vocabulary supports at the bottom of the page to help your students be successful. You could even use this story as the foundation for your whole unit!

Add Movement and Games to Keep It Fresh

If you teach a class that learns best with movement, you are going to love adding interactive stations or whole-class games into your telling time in Spanish lesson plans. Try a time-telling relay where students race to match time expressions with clock visuals, or let them play class bingo using full Spanish sentences about daily routines.

Another low-prep favorite is charades with a time twist. One student acts out a scene (like waking up at 6 or eating lunch at 12:30) while others guess the time in Spanish. It is silly, memorable, and super effective. Mixing in these active elements ensures your telling time in Spanish lesson plans work for a variety of learning styles, and keep the energy up all class long.

Videos for Telling Time

• Telling time with “menos” – from Señor Jordan
• Telling time in Spanish – Explanation (Basic)
• Canción – ¿Qué hora es? (Telling Time song)
• Telling time in Spanish – Practice 1 (Basic) – there are several videos like this one!

Telling Time in Spanish Lesson Plans and Activities

Boom Cards are a great option for a no prep way for your students to practice and get instant feedback. Learn more about how to use Boom Cards in your Spanish classes here or download this set to play with your students here.

If you’re looking for great resources for your middle school and high school Spanish classes, check out this telling the hour analog worksheets freebie. It’s available to download for free here! 

¡Corre en Círculos! is one of my all time favorite games. You can play it a whole bunch of ways, but my go to is to hang the cards up and complete it in a scavenger hunt style puzzle. Grab a pre-made game set here for telling time!

This telling time set actually has printable and digital options, as well as 2 versions. One where students read the sentence and write the time in numbers (pictured above), and the other where students read a time and write out the sentence in Spanish like you see in the picture below. Mix and match to get all the practice your students need!

Quizlet Set – Quizlet is great for playing and practicing with the vocabulary. I particularly like to play Quizlet Live and any of its variations!

Maze Game – I love maze worksheets! My favorite way to use maze worksheets is as a fast finisher after students are done with ¡Corre en Círculos!, but there’s a lot you can do with them! Check out my post on 10 ways to use maze games here!

Review Game – This review game is a great option for stations or to let your students play in pairs or small groups. All they need is a die, something to mark their space, and the game board!

This set of dictation activities is possibly the most useful option I have in this list! Print and hang the sentences for running dictation, or use the included audio file to let your students work individually! Click here to download the set. It’s PERFECT for sub plans during this unit!

Telling Time in Spanish Class Lesson Plans and Activities

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