Preterite Intro and Conjugation

There are ___ past tenses in Spanish

• infinite

• 1

• 2

• 3

They are called the ___ and ____.

• progressive and imperfect
• preterite and imperfect
• preterite and impreterite
• dumb and dumber

The preterite is used for actions that are seen as _____.

• on going
• forever and ever
• completed
• today

In the preterite there is usually a ____ time period.

• specific
• general
• vague
• silly

Which one of these words would you typically see in a PRETERITE sentence in Spanish?

• yesterday

• occasionally

• from time to time

• generally

Which one of these words would you typically see in a PRETERITE sentence in Spanish?

• many times

• once

• always

• often

For the following questions, I give you the verb conjugated in the PRESENT, you pick the correctly conjugaed form of the verb in the PRETERITE.  Got it?

• Yes
• No
• I'm scared

Yo como (ok, so now pick the PRETERITE conjugation)

• yo comí
• yo comió
• yo como
• yo comé

Tú bailas 

• tú bailas
• tú bailiste
• tú bailaste
• tú bailabas

Ella abre la puerta

• Ella abró
• Ella abré
• Ella abrá
• Ella abrió