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Spanish Greetings Crossword & Conversation Sheet

Twelve parallel question prompts appear twice — once addressed informally with 'tú' and once formally with 'usted' — before a crossword and a guided writing page put the same greetings vocabulary to use.
Year groups
Years 8–10
Pages
6
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated Jun 06, 2024

Subject
Spanish, Foreign Languages
Topic
Greetings, Crossword
Resource types
Crosswords Puzzles, Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
Answer key
Included

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About this resource

Help your students practice greetings and writing basic conversations with our Spanish Greetings: Crossword and Conversation! This resource includes a crossword puzzle activity in which students have to match sixteen different greeting expressions. It also includes a sheet for students to create an original conversation in Spanish using the expressions and basic questions included in the information sheets.

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, by practicing in the context of a crossword puzzle and creating an original conversation.

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 crossword puzzle with 16 greeting expressions

  • A sheet for students to write a conversation in the form of a script

  • Answer key for the crossword 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 puzzle into a game with a friendly competition of who finishes first with most accuracy

Use these engaging activities to enhance students' understanding of greetings and develop their writing creativity in Spanish!

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Use Spanish greeting, introduction, and farewell expressions correctly in both informal and formal address

  • Answer basic personal questions in Spanish (name, age, origin, favourite things) using the modeled sentence frames

  • Complete a crossword puzzle using the target greetings/introductions/farewells vocabulary

  • Write an original short Spanish conversation that includes a greeting, an introduction, at least two questions, and a farewell

Teaching tips

  • Teach the informal (tú) and formal (usted) question sets side by side, since they use the same twelve prompts but switch address forms

  • Have students complete the vocabulary and question pages before attempting the crossword, since the crossword draws its answers from that same vocabulary

  • Point students to the numbers 1-100 and emotions vocabulary on the question pages as a bank to pull from when writing their original conversation

Skills covered

  • Formal/informal register — students use different question forms (tú vs. usted) depending on whether they are addressing a friend or an adult.

  • Greeting and farewell vocabulary — students learn and apply Spanish expressions for hello, goodbye, and courtesy phrases such as gracias and por favor.

  • Guided dialogue writing — students compose an original conversation script that must include a greeting, an introduction, two questions, and a farewell.

  • Vocabulary recall via puzzle — students complete a crossword using the same greetings/introductions/farewells terms from the vocabulary sheet.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Does the resource address both formal and informal Spanish?

Yes — the same twelve basic questions appear twice, once addressed to a friend with tú and once addressed to an adult with usted, so students practice both registers.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Spanish greetings and farewells

  • Formal vs. informal address

  • Guided conversation writing

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