Spanish Preterite: Narrative Story

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Preterite Story


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Activity Overview

Activity Includes: basic to intermediate vocabulary

Now that students have learned each of the preterite categories and their exceptions, they are ready to put them all together into a unified story. Preterite takes a lot of practice for mastery, so the more verbs that students include in their stories, the better. As demonstrated in the model storyboard, the first cell is for students to create a color key for the preterite categories. The ensuing cells are for the student’s narrative. Each cell should include at least one preterite verb, if not more, and should be color coded according to the color key in the initial cell. As a starting point, have students include at least one verb from each category and at least 10 preterite verbs total. These minimums can of course be adjusted to fit different needs. Students should have at least six cells for their narrative.


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Objective:Create a 4-6 cell narrative storyboard using various preterite categories.

Student Instructions:

  1. Click “Start Assignment” and give your storyboard a name.
  2. In the first cell, create a color key for the preterite categories
  3. Tell the story in the descriptions of the following cells, color coding the preterite category.
  4. Create illustrations for each using appropriate scenes, characters, items, and text.
  5. Save and exit when you are done.

4 Cell Storyboard With Description

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Spanish Preterite



Regular Verbs

-CAR, -GAR, -ZAR Verbs

Ser & Ir Verbs

New Stem Verbs

Boot Verbs

Dar & Ver

Verbs with “y” and “í”



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