Cuéntame
Tell Me About It
The past tense arrives — and with it, storytelling. Regular preterite plus the essential irregulars (fui, hice, vi) unlock what happened: yesterday, last weekend, that one time…
Unit objectives
- Narrate past events with regular preterite verbs
- Use high-frequency irregulars: fui, hice, vi, tuve
- Sequence a story: primero, después, luego, al final
- Tell a 90-second true story from their life
Can-Do targets
- I can tell what I did yesterday in connected sentences.
- I can narrate a true story from my life.
- I can understand a classmate’s story and ask follow-ups.
Vocabulary scope
hablé, comí, viví, fui, hice, vi, tuve, ayer, el fin de semana pasado, de repente, al final
How this unit builds
THE Grade 7 unlock: six years of present-tense life gains a past. Grade 1’s sequence words return as narrative connectors — the spiral’s longest arc closing.
What this unit will contain
Lessons are produced in the same fully interactive format as Kindergarten — flashcards with audio, games, listening tasks, and take-home activities — and will unlock here as they are finished.
El pretérito — the past patterns
Los irregulares — fui, hice, vi
La secuencia — story architecture
Mi historia — true-story telling
IPA: Cuéntame
The cuentacuentos
Storytelling remains a living art across the Spanish-speaking world — from café tertulias to abuela’s kitchen sagas. Students study what makes an oral story land, in any language.