Are you working on future tense with your middle & high school Spanish class? Check out this fun Spanish future tense worksheet and practice game for regular and irregular verbs! It’s a great way to review Spanish verb conjugation and get students ready to talk about future plans. Let’s check out this game!
Spanish Future Tense Worksheet & Practice Game
This game is one of my all time favorites. I call it “Corre en Círculos” – even though they’re usually not actually running! Here’s the set up:
- Download the PDF
- Print the clue card pages & student pages
- Cut the clue card pages in half
- Make copies of the student pages for each student
- Hang the clue card pages in random order around the room
That’s it! Set up is quite simple for this Spanish worksheet & game. Let’s look at how to play!
How to Use this Spanish Future Tense Worksheet & Practice Game
This is how to play Corre en Círculos. With the student worksheet in hand, students will find any clue card hung around the room. It does not matter which card they start with. Then, they look at the prompt in the smaller font at the bottom of the page. For this game, they’ll see a subject pronoun and the entire infinitive form of the verb. Next, students will record the correct answer of the verb form on their worksheet. Finally, they look around the room until they find their answer on the big font on a clue card, and go to that card. They’ll continue this process until they get back to the first page where they started!
Here’s a short tutorial for you on how I prefer to introduce this game to students:
If it is the very first time you’re playing this game with students, I highly recommend checking out the demo. Students can find the game confusing at first, but once they get it, they love it! There is an explanation page in the pdf download as well.
If you’d like, there is also a set of Slides included. In this version, students drag and drop different Google Slides until they arrange the puzzle with the correct conjugation of the verbs lined up. I like to use that as an option for any students who may be absent, but I have used it while teaching virtually as well!
10 Different Ways to Play
The instructions above are the traditional way to use the pdf worksheet and game, but you can do so much more! It’s nice to change it up to meet students’ needs wherever they’re at with the future tense concept.
- Mini puzzle – Students play this mini version on their desks to complete the circle. Here’s a tutorial on how to print them mini, in case you need it!
- I have who has – Students call out the cards they have in this listen & response game
- Stations – Use a smaller set as part of stations
- Race – Self-explanatory, no? Give them all a paper to start at, say GO! Project a big timer for added drama.
- Mini race- go fast, but use the mini puzzles. If you want, they can work in pairs!
- Digital – Drag & drop version with Google Slides
- Relay – Split up students into teams, they race back and forth to gather all the cards and complete the puzzle
- Beat the clock – Like mini race, but the time gets shorter & shorter
- Hands and the Brain – Students work in pairs to complete the puzzle. One student can touch the pieces, but can only do so when their partner instructs them to. Teamwork at its finest!
Lesson Plans for Irregular and Regular Future Tense
If you’d like to use this game as part of your lesson, here’s a sample outline for your lesson plans:
- Start of Class Routine
- Daily Routine
- Introduce game & pass out Spanish future tense worksheet copies
- Students play, then turn in their worksheets when they finish
- Provide a fast finisher such as a maze game or other future tense practice activity
I’ve used this game with 8th grade through 12th grade students, following a similar lesson plan in a 45-50 minute class period with success!
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Simple Future Tense
If you’re looking for practice for the simple future tense instead, check out this blog post here!