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Spanish Preterite Practice Worksheet

Read the message and complete each task in Spanish. Use the preterite for completed past actions. Include accent marks where needed.

Read the message

El sábado, mi prima Lucía y yo vivimos una aventura en el barrio. Primero, comimos arepas en la plaza y luego recibimos una invitación para ayudar en el centro comunitario. Allí, Lucía leyó un poema mientras yo escribí los nombres de los voluntarios. Al principio, no vimos personas conocidas, pero después llegaron varios vecinos. Nadie trajo platos desechables; todos compartieron algo de comer. Al final, volvimos a casa cansados, pero contentos.

1.In Spanish, write one complete preterite sentence describing something that happened in the message.

Understand and use the preterite

Use details from the message for Questions 2–4.

2.What did Lucía do at the community center? Answer in Spanish using a complete sentence.
3.Complete the sentence: «Yo ____ los nombres de los voluntarios».
  • escribí
  • escribió
  • escribimos
  • escribía
4.In the message, what does «Nadie trajo platos desechables» mean? Answer in English.

Conjugate and choose precisely

Pay attention to the subject and to affirmative or negative meaning.

5.Fill each blank with the correct preterite form of the verb in parentheses: «Mis amigos (comer) en la plaza y luego (vivir) una tarde inolvidable».
6.Choose the phrase that completes the sentence logically: «No encontré ____ en la oficina; estaba vacía».
  • alguien
  • a nadie
  • algo
  • siempre
7.Correct the negative-word use in this sentence: «Ayer, nosotros no comimos algo en el centro».
8.Rewrite this sentence so it says that nobody arrived: «Alguien llegó temprano».
9.Write two connected sentences in Spanish about a community event that ended yesterday. Use at least two correctly conjugated preterite -er/-ir verbs and one affirmative or negative word, such as algo, nada, alguien, nadie, siempre, or nunca.

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  • Spanish Preterite Practice Worksheet, page 1 of 2: Read the message, Understand and use the preterite

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  • Spanish Preterite Practice Worksheet, page 2 of 2: Conjugate and choose precisely

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