Are you looking for ideas for present progressive tense Spanish activities? These activities make great options for individual, pair, and whole group review options to give you lots of variety while you’re lesson planning. Check out these ways you can review this tense with your novice Spanish classes!
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5 Present Progressive Tense Spanish Activities
- Present Progressive Boom Cards Digital Task Cards
- Play Charades
- ¡Corre en Círculos! Spanish Review Game
- GIF Game
- Maze Games
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Present Progressive Boom Cards Digital Task Cards
Boom Cards are such a fun option for that instant feedback they provide! Students respond to the digital task card and immediately know how they did. It’s great practice! If you would like to try out this deck in a short sample, click here to test it out.
This deck includes the following:
- 4 “lesson” cards to help review the present progressive tense in Spanish
- review conjugations of estar
- practice choosing the correct form of estar in a sentence
- fill in the blank
- unscramble the sentence
- complete subject/verb conjugation practices
New to Boom Cards? No worries, they’re super simple to use! Check out my blog post here to get started.
Play Charades
A simple option for review is to have students play charades or reverse charades! Students draw a card with an infinitive and have to act it out. Their classmates call out what they are doing, using the present progressive.
Reverse charades are played the same way, but instead of one person acting and a group guessing, a group acts and one person guesses. I find that helps my secondary students feel more comfortable!
¡Corre en Círculos! Spanish Review Game
¡Corre en Círculos! is always a hit! Students get up and moving in this scavenger hunt style game. Students read the smaller text on the bottom, write their answer on the worksheet page, then go find the sheet with their answer hung around the room. This self-grading practice is great for review as they find out if they completed it correctly by making it to the end of the loop!
New to the ¡Corre en Círculos! review game? Learn how to play here!
GIF Game
Similar to Charades or Reverse Charades, but instead use slides with gifs or movie clips to have students say what the characters are doing. Set this up as a competition with students in teams, or just have the whole class review and write their answers on mini whiteboards!
For an added bonus, it’s always fun to use actors and characters students are currently into or following. It definitely ups the engagement!
Maze Game
Maze games are a great filler option or addition to stations. Students navigate their way through the maze by choosing the correct path. Then, extend the activity by having students return to the paths they missed and filling in the correct response.
Check out 10 Ways to use Maze Games in this blog post!
5 Present Progressive Tense Spanish Activities
There you have it! 5 ways to review and practice the present progressive tense in Spanish. I’d love to hear if you have any other activities you usually use during this chapter! Drop a comment down below with any suggestions or recommendations you have.