Inside: Are you looking for a Spanish future tense worksheet for your Spanish class? If you need future tense Spanish practice worksheets, future tense Spanish weekend chat and seasonal ways to review the future tense, this post is for you.
Author – Allison Wienhold
Published – February 10, 2025
How to Teach the Future Tense in Spanish Class
I know that in many curriculums and textbooks, Ir a + Infinitive Verb future tense is introduced in Spanish 1. I actually introduce “va a” in my High-Frequency Verb Unit to Start Spanish 1 lesson plans. Then for the first years of class that is the form of the future we most commonly use to talk about our upcoming weekend or future break. You can see my Mis Clases Locas Curriculum for Spanish 1-4 to get a feel of how I have structured my year in the past.
Quite often most Spanish curriculums wait to introduce the Spanish simple future tense until about Spanish 3 or even Spanish 4. I am not exactly sure why, since the future verb form is a much easier form to learn than the Preterite & Imperfect.
Yes there are irregular verbs in el futuro, but the verb conjugation is super simple. Besides irregfular verbs, you use the entire infinitive form of the verb & add a consistant ending .
This post will have ideas for reviewing future plans using the future tense in Spanish class. If you need a print and go pdf worksheet or a future Spanish worksheet, you are in the right place.
How to Teach the Simple Future Tense in Spanish Class
If you want to teach the simple future using comprehensible input strategies, such as Persona Especial, see the unit and activity below.
The Original Future Tense Spanish Super 7 Unit
This Future tense 2-week unit is perfect for in-person instruction to introduce or review the Future tense, focusing on the Super 7 verbs. The Super 7 verbs include forms of: será, tendrá, irá, habrá, estará, querrá, hará.
It includes a set of slides with a variety of activities to learn or practice el futuro. On different google slides there is authentic popular song using correct form of the simple future, explanation page with short tutorial, independent work, writing exercise, and more for high schoolers or middle schoolers.
I have found high school classes do better talking about far off future plans. Elementary middle school understand the future tense concept. But, it is better as a practice opportunity to talk about what they are doing later today or this weekend.
Introduce these Future tense verbs while helping students build a positive classroom community with special person interviews. Learn more about how to use units like this in How to use High-Frequency Verb Units.
Future Tense Spanish Practice Worksheets Super 7 Future
Additionally, there is an interpersonal speaking and presentational writing activity to review the above future unit. This Super 7 Find Someone Who is perfect to review before an assessment. See the blog post Find Someone Who Spanish Interpersonal Speaking for ways to mix up this activity.
On the first page there are example sentences to support introductory practice and all students’ needs.
There is also a writing exercise. There are differentiated options to choose between fill in the blank and writing a short paragraph in Spanish.
It is an interactive grammar skills activity, disguised as fun future tense Spanish practice worksheets.
Future Bundle in my shop OR Super 7 Future Bundle
Finally, all of the Future Super 7 activities above are together in this money-saving Future Bundle in my shop OR Super 7 future bundle on TPT. This is a clear choice if you want both the unit and the review activity.
Also need a Spanish Conditional Tense Worksheet?
If you want a similar Conditional Tense practice Worksheet I have the perfect Find Someone Who.
>> Get the Conditional Tense Spanish Find Someone Who
Teach ir + a Future Tense in Spanish Class
I typically introduce Ir a + Infinitive Verb future tense in the first unit of Spanish 1. I introduce “va a” in my High-Frequency Verb Unit to Start Spanish 1. That is why this is the form of the future we most commonly use to talk about our upcoming weekend or future break right away in novice Spanish classes. You can see below how I use it for any Friday, or before specific breaks.
Spanish Future Tense Worksheet for Weekend Chat
I introduce and recycle the Spanish future all year long with routines like future weekend talk using ir + a + infinitive. You can start these in early Spanish 1, after doing a present tense Super 7 unit introducing ir + a.
Get lots of repetitions of “voy a” on any Friday to talk about future weekend plans as a bell-ringer activity. This simple activity could be a routine to start class each Friday. Or these future tense Spanish practice worksheets are an easy time filler to pull out at the end of class when you finish up a Friday quiz or activity.
Spanish Future Tense Weekend Chat Find Someone Who Worksheet
The Future Weekend Chat Find Someone Who is great to get students up and moving. Students review verb usage, correct conjugation, and Spanish grammar without realizing it.
There are differentiated pages, student pages to support all learners. Native English speakers get meaningful practice with support. While advanced Spanish language learners get a chance to converse in Spanish future tense about a high interest topic.
See Find Someone Who for a great way to mix up this activity.
Future Weekend Chat Digital Slides
The Future Weekend Chat Digital Slides can easily be added to your daily slides for Friday. Future Weekend Chat can be a bell-ringer activity, class opener, brain break, or end-of-class discussion. They also work great to project during remote learning.
See 20 Ways to Mix Up Weekend Chat for more ideas to mix up the different Google Slides as well.
Pre-Break Activities using ir + a Future Tense Spanish
Days before any break are always a struggle of what to do. Students are typically super chatty, so letting them talk about their future break can be helpful. Here are some future tense activities to use before a break in chronological order of the year when you could use them.
Spanish Future Tense Worksheet Pre-Spring Break Find Someone Who
Or Before SPRING break Spanish Future Tense Worksheet in my shop
If you want lesson ideas for the last day before Spring Break, get these future tense Spanish practice worksheets. It works great for 8th grade, as well as 12th grade. Language resources you can use for all levels of Spanish you teach.
Pre-Spring Break Digital Slides on TPT or the same slides in my shop
Need an alternative to a pdf worksheet for absent students or accommodations? These editable Google slides are great for a 1 day emergency Sub Plan before Easter or Spring Break as well. Or post this online interactive exercise on Google Classroom for students who decide to start their Spring Break early.
Pre-Summer Break Find Someone Who or Last Day FSW in my shop
Another Spanish future tense worksheet for one of the last days before summer break. Perfect future tense Spanish practice worksheets that you can put on a clipboard and do outside when it is nice out too.
Este descaso Spanish future tense worksheet Pre-Winter Break
Finally, these future tense Spanish practice worksheets are great for the day before Thanksgiving, Chritsmas or Winter Break.
Future Tense Spanish Practice Worksheets
The above resources will help you introduce or review the Future Tense in Spanish class. Plus, this Future Bundle includes all of my in-person favorites. Get the High-Frequency Verbs Mega Bundle for the best deal overall. Do you have more ideas of how you use the Future tense? Please share!
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Practice Spanish Future Tense Making Predictions in a Show
The show Tierra Incógnita is perfect for upper level Spanish class. Practice el futuro making predictions of what will happen next. Get free character intro slides below.
