La Hora Practice Spanish Telling Time Worksheets

If you’re looking for Spanish telling time worksheets, check out these great resources and independent work options for your middle school and high school students! Great for reviewing telling time expressions in Spanish as you work on your lesson plans!

The Verb Ser

When telling time, students don’t have to be able to conjugate the verb ser. They can simply understand “son las” vs “es la” as ways to begin the sentence. For example, “Son las dos” means, “It’s two o’clock”, but “Es la una y media” means, “It’s one-thirty” when talking about the time of day. Either way, they’ll be able to form the sentences to talk about the time with Spanish speakers without needing to conjugate forms of the verb ser.

Spanish Numbers

When telling time in Spanish, your students need to know numbers 1-12 to discuss hours, and 1-60 when talking about minutes. However, there are a few additional words that can help, too!

Spanish Time Expressions:

• En punto
• Y cuarto
• Y media
• Menos cuarto
• De la mañana
• De la tarde
• De la noche
• Media hora

You can also decide if you want them to work with the 24-hour clock, as is common in many Spanish-speaking countries. 

Analog Clock and Digital Clocks

Students often struggle with analog clocks as they are so used to reading time on digital clocks. Try not to get hung up on whether or not your students are able to read the analog clock as you’re not assessing that math skill. I do recommend including some analog clock practice, just as a life skill for them, but it’s not the main focus of these Spanish telling time worksheets & activities. This way they can focus on the language, not the clock face!

If you’d like a review activity that includes both digital clocks and practice with an analog clock face, check out these Boom Cards for telling time. They include:

• review numbers in Spanish
• answer multiple choice questions
• telling time looking at analog clocks
• telling time looking at digital clocks
• find the error in grammatically incorrect sentences

Clock Partners

A simple way for students to practice telling time is by creating “clock partners”. This is a relatively easy option to use throughout the year for students to hear time throughout the class, and find different people to work with as you’re doing different activities! On a sheet of paper, print a clock. On each hour, write the Spanish time expression:

• ​Es la una
• Son las dos
• Son las tres
• Son las cuatro
• Son las cinco
• Son las seis
• Son las siete
• Son las ocho
• Son las nueve
• Son las diez
• Son las once
• Son las doce

If you need more pairs, you could add the half hour on the page as well! Then, underneath each time expression, add a blank line. Students will find a different partner for each “hour” of the clock. When you first pass out the printable worksheets, students will find a different person and write their name under each line. Then, when it’s time for a partner work activity, you’ll call out “Son las dos” and students will find their “2 o’clock partner”. If you need to switch partners, just call out the next hour! You can do slight variations by calling out things like “Es la medianoche”, if you’d like to get tricky!

Spanish Telling Time Worksheets

These Spanish worksheets are a great way to practice time expressions and Spanish numbers. In this interactive practice, students read a time and move the hands on their worksheet to show their comprehension.

The telling time in Spanish dictation set includes listening, reading, and writing practice all in one review activity. Print and hang the sentences for running dictation, or use the included audio file to let your students work individually! This is a great resource for a sub plan as well.

This comprehensible Spanish short story reading activity is a great way to introduce time in Spanish to your students and provide a great source of Spanish CI for your novices! This resource includes a short reading about a girl who can’t find her notebook written in comprehensible language. The reading includes vocabulary supports at the bottom of the page to help your students be successful. The girl is on a time crunch to find her notebook before it’s time to leave for the bus!

Daily Routines Conversation Cards

Want your students to talk about their weekly schedule? These conversation cards will get students sharing about their daily routines throughout the school day. These question cards help your students start some conversations and practice telling time and talking about school schedules. There are 30 cards included, as well as a blank template for you to add any of your own (or have students create some!). Click here to download the set!

Spanish Games

Your students will love a Corre en Círculos game, which is a scavenger hunt style activity you can play with your classes. Students answer the question, then move to the next prompt for a fun way to review. This game can be done independently, or they can play in pairs as they work together to solve the puzzle!

The maze Spanish worksheets will give students practice with time expressions. Each correct answer leads them closer to the end of the maze! This could be used in class as independent practice, for homework, or would be an excellent file to leave for a substitute. An answer key is included that can be projected for students to self- correct, as well as a digital version for Google Slides. These also work as a great fast finisher option during your unit on time in Spanish class.

Another option for Spanish games with telling time is this print and go board game. Students roll a die and move the spaces. When they land on a square, they say the time in Spanish, or you can have them write it down on a white board for writing practice.

Free Resources

Stories are a great way to introduce time in a natural way. This cute story is about a monkey who is just so excited for her birthday party, she can’t wait to celebrate! It goes through her day of anxiously waiting and getting ready for the party. It’s very simple for them to understand, and you can do a ton of activities with it! This is a free resource available in my Freebie Library for newsletter subscribers. 

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Videos are another great resource for free practice. Check out these options:

• 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!

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

Spanish Telling Time Worksheet Bundle

If you are looking for different options to practice telling time in Spanish, check out this bundle of practice activities! Perfect for your Spanish students in middle school and high school language classes.

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You can also check out all of my Spanish telling time worksheets and activities separately here!

Más Práctica para Tus Estudiantes

I hope these worksheets and activities have given you a few ideas you can add to your telling time lesson plans! Check out these additional blog posts with more practice resources for your students:

If your students need to review numbers while you’re working on this unit, check out the blog post below for ideas.

If your unit includes days of the week and telling time, check out these resources for more!

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