Christmas Mystery in Spanish: Practice Irregular Preterite Verbs

Engaging · Fun · Christmas-Themed 🎄🕵️‍♀️

Make verb practice exciting this holiday season! This Christmas-themed mystery activity helps students practice irregular preterite verbs in Spanish while solving who ruined Santa’s cookies. Students read clues written with irregular preterite verbs and use critical thinking to decide which character is culpable, inocente o sospechoso. Then, they complete a companion worksheet where THEY conjugate the irregular verbs and justify their final answer using complete sentences.

✨ What’s Included

⭐ 1 Slide Deck (Google Slides / PPT)
Clues are presented one per slide, and each one uses a different irregular preterite verb. where they can choose if the character is:

• Culpable (guilty)

• Inocente (innocent)

• Sospechoso (suspicius)

⭐ 1 Printable Worksheet

• Students conjugate irregular preterite verbs in context

• Fill-in-the-blank clues

• A writing section where they answer:
  “¿Quién se comió las galletas y por qué?”
  using irregular preterite verbs in their explanation

💡 Grammar Focus

Students practice 11 irregular verbs in the pretérito (third-person forms):
tener, estar, poder, poner, querer, venir, decir, hacer, traer, ir/ser, ver, dar