Spanish Greetings: Word-Search and Categories

Help your students practice greetings, farewells, introductions and basic questions with our Greetings Worksheets for the Spanish class! This resource includes a crossword puzzle activity in which students have to write the expressions in Spanish and them find these expressions within the puzzle in Spanish. It also includes an activity for students to sort the expressions into four categories: greetings, farewells, introductions and words of courtesy.

The objective of these worksheets is for students to familiarize themselves with common greeting expressions in Spanish and also with the basic questions that are typically asked on initial conversations when meeting someone.

Grades/Ages:

This resource is intended for beginner learners or as a review for higher levels of Spanish.

In this resource you can find:

• Information sheet with expressions divided in four categories: Greetings, Farewells, Introductions and Words of Courtesy

• Information sheet with basic questions in Spanish and the way to answer them correctly (directed to a friend or someone you are familiar with)

• Information sheet with basic questions in Spanish and the way to answer them correctly (directed to adults or people whom you should treat with respect/formally).

• A word-search puzzle in which students have to write the expressions in Spanish and then they have to find the expression in the puzzle.

• A writing activity in which students have to sort the expressions into 4 different categories.

  Answer key for the matching activity

How to use these worksheets? Use the worksheets as:

• Practice after introducing the topic of greetings.

• Homework

• Part of a substitute packet

• Turn the worksheets to a game with a friendly competition of who finishes first with most accuracy

These worksheets offer students the opportunity to practice, memorize and retain expressions of greetings, farewells, introductions and words of courtesy in Spanish. With these expressions as part of their ever growing repertoire, students will be able to enhance their speaking, reading and writing abilities, which they can later transfer to real conversations.