Today I introduced the present perfect tense to my Spanish class. I started by giving them general guidelines about when to use the present perfect tense and then gave them instructions to start their scavenger hunt so that they could inquire and discover the patterns of present perfect tense independently.

I bought this scavenger hunt from TPT and put up the papers around my classroom. The students, armed with their clipboards and their student handout, set out to find the conjugations of a range of verbs in the present perfect. Once they had moved around the room from clue to clue and written the information down, they worked in pairs and groups to figure out the present tense conjugation of the verb HABER and identify the patterns of the regular past participles. This activity worked wonderfully and I was delighted that the students were able to work by themselves to figure out the rules of this verb tense. I think that I may be doing scavenger hunts on a regular basis!

Today the students were learning the verb TENER and we played the game ¡SEIS!. This is an excellent way for the students to practise the verb over and over again. It is a super simple game to play and here are the instructions and photos:

1. Group your students in pairs.
2. Print out a paper on which the students can conjugate a verb multiple times and give it to each pair of students.
3. Give each student a different colour pen, and give each pair of students a dice.
4. Students roll a dice to decide who in their pair begins the game.
5. The person who starts the game, begins to write out the conjugation of the verb on the paper. They can start anywhere on the paper, it doesn't matter.
6. While one student is writing, the other is continually rolling the dice until they get a six. When they get a six their call ¡SEIS!, and take the paper so that they can now write out conjugations of the verb in the spaces.
   
7. The students keep writing and switching and the game ends when all the spaces have been filled with the conjugations.
   
8. Finally the students check that all of the conjugations are correct, and cross out any conjugations that contain errors. They count up how many conjugations each student has written correctly (easy because they are writing in different colours), and the students with the most is the winner!