Ser vs Estar Games

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If you’ve been working on teaching ser vs estar in Spanish with your Spanish 1 students, these ser vs estar games are a great option to use toward the end of the unit. Let’s look at how to play this game with your classes!

Ser vs Estar Games

How to Set Up

These review games include the following:

Printable student sheet
2 Printable puzzles
2 Digital puzzles for use with Google Slides
Instructions for teacher use
Answer Keys

If you’re using the printable puzzle option, start by printing the file. Tape the sheets in random order around the room – or have your students do it!

When I travel between rooms so I usually just set the sheets and a few things of tape by the door. Students know they are expected to help with set up by grabbing a sheet or two, then attaching it to an appropriate space on the walls.

Click here to learn more tips for how to handle having multiple classrooms!

If you’re using the digital puzzle, you’ll just share the file with your students in your school’s learning management system, like Canvas or Google Classroom.

How to Play these Ser vs Estar Games

To play this game, students read the clue at the bottom of the page, record their answer, then find the answer around the room. When they find the answer, they go to it, and complete the next prompt, repeating until they have completed the circle! Some students like to race to see who can finish the loop fastest, others work at their own pace. Students can begin at any prompt and practice, checking their work as they go.

Students read the clues at the bottom of the page, then find the answer in the larger font.

These review games have two different ways to practice- one where students interpret the sentence and write the time, and one where they read the time and write how to say it in Spanish. Print in different colors for differentiation, use one as an extension of the other, or do the two activities on two different days!

If you’re new to Corre en Círculos it can be a little confusing at first! Here’s a walkthrough of how I like to introduce this game to students the first time we play:

Of course, it’s totally up to you how to use the scavenger hunt game in the file. Here are 9 more options for ways to play with this clue cards!

Click here for 10 ways to play this review game!

How to Correct these Ser vs Estar Games

The great thing about the Corre en Círculos review game is that it’s basically auto correcting. Students get instant feedback as they play the scavenger hunt game because if they get back to a piece they’ve done before, they know they did something wrong. Likewise, if they get to where they started before they complete all the spaces on their handout, they know they did something wrong and they have to re-trace their steps!