About this activity
Twelve Spanish conjugations across the three regular verb endings: hablar gives hablo, hablas, habla, hablamos; comer gives como, comes, come, comemos; vivir gives vivo, vives, vive, vivimos. Spanish marks the person on the verb itself, which is why the pronoun is often dropped and why the ending carries so much information.
How to use it in a session
Group by verb rather than by person. Four forms of hablar in a row make the pattern visible — the stem stays and the ending changes — and mixing the three verbs before one is secure produces confusion. Comer and vivir share three of their four endings here, which is worth pointing out once hablar is solid. Ten minutes covers one verb properly.
What to listen for
Listen for the ending carrying the person. A student who says yo hablas has the verb and not the agreement, which is different from not knowing the verb at all. Watch comemos and vivimos, where the -er and -ir verbs differ in the nosotros form — the one place the two patterns come apart in this set.
Carrying it home
Spanish conjugation is heard constantly at home and rarely commented on. Recasting rather than correcting — sí, tú hablas mucho — gives the form back in a real sentence without stopping the conversation.
Questions
- Is this activity in Spanish?
- Yes, all twelve items are Spanish. This page is in English so an English-speaking clinician can find and evaluate it.
- Do I need an account?
- No, it plays free with no login.
- Why does Spanish drop the pronoun?
- Because the verb ending already says who is doing it. Hablo can only mean I speak, so yo is optional — which is why the endings carry more weight than they do in English.