English and Spanish are among the most studied as a second language. They both have a few issues that are hard for learners to master. In the case of English, verb conjugations and the way they are used in phrases are a challenge. In the case of Spanish, there is a very large number of verb tenses and person forms.
Combining a verb with all of the helping verbs into verb phrases is a challenge for English learners. There are several hundred combinations of the following choices:
There is an app for teachers that allows you to customize what students will see. It lets you create links to paste into an email or an online syllabus that only display what they've already studied plus one new aspect of the big picture.
Look up the conjugation of any verb in the Spanish language. The column headings make it easy to see a pattern that is predictable for each tense, even in irregular verbs!
There is an app for teachers that will enable you to customize what tenses the student can see. Seeing the whole picture can be daunting in the students' early experience. The app will allow you to create a customized link that can be pasted into an email or into your online syllabus, that will control how much the students can see as they progress in their language study.
The Dial-A-Verb wheels begin to be especially useful when learning the second or third tense. Without this aid, all of the tenses begin to run together in a student's mind. These wheels are especially helpful for developing a sense of order in the total verb system.
The model verbs are cross-referenced so that the “5000” and “8000” models can be used together in the same classroom.
Spanish Dial-Verb 5000 (simplified) |
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Spanish Dial-Verb 8000 (advanced) |
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