FUTURE TENSE
What is the tense used to talk about actions that will happen after now?
What is the future tense?
What is the conditional tense used for? Name one main use.
What is expressing hypothetical situations, polite requests, or what would happen under certain conditions?
What is the subjunctive mood used for? Name one main use.
What is expressing doubt, wishes, commands, emotions, or hypothetical situations?
Identify the tense: "Ella estudiará mañana." Is it future, conditional, or subjunctive?
What is the future tense? (The ending -á and the indicator word mañana signal a definite future action)
Name five Spanish verb tenses we've studied and give one indicator word for each.
What are: (1) Present - ahora, (2) Preterite - ayer, (3) Imperfect - siempre, (4) Future - mañana, (5) Conditional - me gustaría (6) Subjunctive - recomiendo que (answers vary)*
Name three indicator words/phrases that signal the future tense (e.g., "tomorrow," "next week").
What are mañana, la próxima semana, el próximo mes (accept: dentro de, en, pronto, etc.)?
Name three indicator phrases that signal the conditional (e.g., "if," "would").
What are si (if), sería (would be), me gustaría (I would like), podrías (could you), debería (should)?
Name four indicator phrases/verbs that trigger the subjunctive (e.g., "I want that...").
What are quiero que (I want that), dudo que (I doubt that), es posible que (it's possible that), es importante que (it's important that), le pido que (I ask that), espero que (I hope that)?
Identify the tense: "Mañana iré al cine." Is it future, conditional, or subjunctive? Explain your answer.
What is the future tense? (iré = future ending -é, and mañana signals the future)
Which tense is used to express a completed action at a specific time in the past: preterite or imperfect?
What is the preterite?
Conjugate "hablar" (to speak) in the future tense for "yo" and explain the pattern.
What is hablaré? (The pattern is: infinitive + future endings: -é, -ás, -á, -emos, -éis, -án)
Conjugate "comer" (to eat) in the conditional for "nosotros" and explain the pattern.
What is comeríamos? (The pattern is: infinitive + conditional endings: -ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían)
Conjugate "hablar" in the present subjunctive for all six persons and identify the stem.
What is: hable, hables, hable, hablemos, habléis, hablen? (Stem: habl-)
Identify the tense and use: "Me gustaría que viajemos juntos." Which tense is used and why?
What is the conditional (me gustaría) paired with the subjunctive (viajemos) because it expresses a polite wish or desire?
Translate: "I used to play soccer every day." Which tense should you use and why?
What is "Solía jugar al fútbol cada día" or "Jugaba al fútbol cada día"? (Imperfect tense—it describes a repeated or habitual action in the past)
Identify two irregular future stems and their infinitives (e.g., tener → tendr-).
What are tener → tendr-, hacer → har-, salir → saldr-, venir → vendr-, poner → pondr-, poder → podr-, saber → sabr-, decir → dir- (accept any two)?
State two irregular conditional stems and explain why they're irregular (they share stems with the future tense).
What are tener → tendr-, hacer → har-, salir → saldr-, venir → vendr-, poner → pondr-, poder → podr-, saber → sabr-, decir → dir- (accept any two)? They're irregular because they use the same irregular stems as the future tense.
Explain the difference between the subjunctive and indicative in these two sentences: "Creo que es verdad" vs. "No creo que sea verdad."
What is: The first uses the indicative (es) because the speaker believes it's true. The second uses the subjunctive (sea) because the speaker expresses doubt?
Compare these three sentences and identify their tenses: (1) "Hablaré español." (2) "Hablaría español si pudiera." (3) "Dudo que hable español."
What are (1) future, (2) conditional, and (3) subjunctive? Explain: (1) states a definite future action, (2) expresses a hypothetical action, (3) expresses doubt.
Conjugate "ir" (to go) in the preterite for all six persons.
What is: fui, fuiste, fue, fuimos, fuisteis, fueron?
Translate: "We will travel to Spain next summer." Use the future tense.
What is Viajaremos a España el próximo verano?
Translate: "If I had time, I would study Spanish every day." Use the conditional.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Si tuviera tiempo, estudiaría español cada día? (Note: This uses the imperfect subjunctive in the si clause and conditional in the main clause)
Translate: "I hope that they arrive on time, but I doubt that they will." Use the subjunctive appropriately.
What is Espero que lleguen a tiempo, pero dudo que lleguen a tiempo (or pero dudo que lo hagan)?
Create a sentence using all three tenses: future, conditional, and subjunctive. Example context: talking about a trip to Mexico.
Answers will vary. Example: Viajaré a México el próximo verano. Me gustaría que mis amigos vengan conmigo, pero dudo que puedan. (Future: viajaré, Conditional: me gustaría, Subjunctive: puedan)
Explain when you would use the preterite vs. the imperfect in this context: "Mientras estudiaba (imperfect), recibí (preterite) una llamada."
What is: The imperfect (estudiaba) sets the background/ongoing action, while the preterite (recibí) shows the completed action that interrupted it?