CARLA: Spanish Grammar Strategies

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Note cards for distinguishing tenses

Claire knows that she often confuses tenses. For her, it is difficult to distinguish
a) the preterite from the conditional, and
b) the conditional from the imperfect.

Claire uses note cards to practice these tenses. First she writes them out. Here is what she writes down on the front and back of each card:

Front

infinitive form of a verb,

a personal pronoun

names of the tenses that are confusing.

Back

verb form matching the personal pronoun chosen in both preterite and conditional.

The student gets the verb forms from material received in class, her textbook, or 501 Spanish Verbs (Kendris & Kendris, 2001).

Then she uses the note cards to quiz herself on both tenses while saying the forms aloud. Finally, she also thinks of sentences where she can use each form of the verb.

Note:

Verb conjugators and form charts are also widely available on
the Internet. Follow this link to find a few websites that offer
Spanish verb conjugations.

http://www.conjugation.org/
http://www.spaleon.com/sub_pres.php
http://conjuguemos.com/home/docs/nologin/list_spanish_verbs_verbs.html
http://www.123teachme.com/spanish_verb_conjugation
http://www.spanishdaddy.com/SpanishVerbConjugator.aspx
http://www.lingolex.com/conjugatorform.htm

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I'm looking for a strategy that someone has used successfully to learn a specific grammar form.

I'm looking for strategies that match my learning style and that can apply to various grammar forms.

Note cards for distinguishing tenses