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A front-loaded Repaso del Presente picks up everything from Voces 1, then introduces the four major indicative tenses Spanish 2 students need: commands, preterite, imperfect, and future.

How this curriculum maps to the textbook

Voces 2 has 11 chapters; this VerbMaster curriculum has 11 assignments, but the mapping is not chapter-by-chapter. Several of the textbook's early chapters are usage-focused reviews of present-tense verbs students already learned in Voces 1 (when to use ser vs. estar, idiomatic uses of tener, ir + a + infinitivo, etc.) — the actual conjugation work is just review. We consolidate all of that into a single Repaso del Presente assignment at the front rather than breaking out one-verb assignments per textbook section.

#VerbMaster AssignmentTextbook Chapter(s)
1Repaso del PresenteCh 1 (covers all Voces 1 present-tense content)
2Mandatos AfirmativosCh 3
3Mandatos NegativosCh 3
4Pretérito de Estar, Tener y PonerseCh 4
5Pretérito de IrCh 5
6Pretérito de los Verbos RegularesCh 5–6
7Pretérito de los Verbos IrregularesCh 6
8ImperfectoCh 7
9Imperfecto IrregularCh 7
10Futuro RegularCh 9
11Futuro IrregularCh 10

Chapters with no dedicated VerbMaster assignment: Ch 2 (ser vs. estar, estar y ubicación), parts of Ch 4 (modismos con tener, ponerse), Ch 8 (acciones recíprocas, pretérito vs. imperfecto — usage concepts), Ch 9 (ir + a + infinitivo), Ch 11 (por vs. para). These topics are taught in the textbook through usage discussion — VerbMaster's role for them is just to ensure students can conjugate the underlying verbs, which the Repaso already handles.

When to start, and pacing

Spanish 2 students should be ready to start VerbMaster in week 1 or 2 of the year. The first assignment is the Repaso del Presente, which lines up with the textbook's Chapter 1 Repaso del tiempo presente.

At 2 weeks per assignment, the 11 assignments fill ~22 weeks of core work — comfortable buffer in a 36-week year for breaks, review, and the harder assignments (preterite irregulars and the imperfecto block especially).

Heads-up on auto-generated due dates

VerbMaster's default due-date algorithm spaces assignments 1 week apart. Plan to override that and stretch them out — either bump everything to 2 weeks, or weight the difficult assignments longer and leave simpler ones at 1 week.

You don't have to micromanage any of this

Customize as much as you like, but you're equally welcome to set it up once and walk away. Set-it-and-forget-it is a totally valid mode.

About Assignment 1 — Repaso del Presente

The Repaso is intentionally large (~65 verbs × present + infinitive ≈ 450 form-pairs), but spaced repetition makes it self-pacing: strong students cycle through quickly; students with gaps get targeted drilling on the forms they actually missed.

How students engage depends on their VerbMaster history:

  • Continuing students (used VerbMaster in Spanish 1): mastery data carries across years, so Assignment 1 will already show complete. Their first weeks should focus on keeping Mastery Reviews at zero — this keeps their Voces 1 present-tense content fresh while they wait for the new content to start.
  • New students: the Repaso is their starting point. Two weeks is generous for content they should already know; expect this to compress for most.
  • Mixed classes: sorts itself out. Returning students do Mastery Reviews; new students complete the Repaso; everyone converges at Assignment 2.

Notes on specific assignments

Mandatos — split by polarity, not formality

The textbook teaches informal, formal, and cambios ortográficos commands as separate sub-topics. VerbMaster doesn't differentiate by formality (the underlying conjugation system doesn't have a formal/informal tag), so the assignment splits are by polarity instead: Mandatos Afirmativos and Mandatos Negativos. Spelling-change commands (busques, pague, etc.) are captured automatically by the existing tags — students don't need a separate assignment.

Pretérito de Ir = Pretérito de Ser

Worth flagging to students: fui, fuiste, fue, fuimos, fuisteis, fueron is also the preterite of ser. Same forms; context tells you which verb. VerbMaster's drill will surface this naturally — students see the same forms tagged as both verbs.