5: Suggestions for using Tarea Libre 2
How to Use Tarea Libre 2
This guide provides instructors with suggestions on how to integrate Tarea Libre 2 into their intermediate and advanced Spanish courses. Designed as an accessible OER, this question bank includes 800 interactive activities that align with the standards established for intermediate and advanced Spanish courses in California higher education, SPAN 200 and SPAN 210 California’s C-ID curriculum model. Tarea Libre 2 can be used directly in ADAPT or seamlessly integrated with your Learning Management System (LMS) via LTI. This integration ensures automatic gradebook synchronization with most LMSs.
Getting Started
-
For Instructors Already Using Entrada Libre and Acceso :
The modules and topics in Tarea Libre 2 mirror the structure and progression of these popular OERs. This continuity makes it easy to adapt your course materials and align homework assignments with these OERs. -
Replacing Commercial Platforms :
Tarea Libre 2 serves as an OER alternative to publisher-based homework platforms. With its extensive question bank, you can select activities that best address your students' specific learning needs.
Activity Structure
Each grammar module includes four levels of progressively challenging activities:
- Paso 1: Empecemos – Introduction to foundational grammar concepts.
- Paso 2: Continuemos – Intermediate practice with guided activities.
- Paso 3: Practiquemos – Advanced practice focusing on mastery.
- Paso 4: Avancemos – Synthesis of learned material in a more advanced format.
Each module also features a De todo un poco section, offering a variety of auto-graded activities to reinforce learning.
Skills-Based Assessments
Beyond grammar, Tarea Libre 2 provides skill-building activities in:
- Speaking (Hablemos) – Prompts using the ADAPT recorder widget.
- Listening (Escuchemos) – Short, thematic videos paired with comprehension exercises using the ADAPT recorder widget.
- Reading (Leamos) – Culturally enriched readings with comprehension checks.
- Interactive Discussions (Conversemos) – Open-ended prompts linked to Acceso topics, supporting threaded audio, video, or text submissions. This activity uses the ADAPT Discuss-It question type.
Cultural Themes and IDEA Integration
All eight modules in Tarea Libre 2 embody the principles of inclusion, diversity, equity, and anti-racism (IDEA), alongside culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP). Through these features, students engage with:
- Underrepresented voices and narratives , such as Indigenous groups and diverse cultural traditions.
- Explorations of multicultural influences , like the Levantine roots of tacos al pastor or Korean-Mexican connections.
- Inspirational stories from figures like Chef José Andrés and Albert Espinosa.
By emphasizing these diverse perspectives, Tarea Libre 2 enriches the language-learning experience and fosters deeper cultural appreciation.
OER Textbook Remixes for Second-year Spanish
To help with the adoption of Tarea Libre 2 , we have created two possible remixes of Spanish OERs for second-year Spanish courses. You can take any of the already created remixes and use them as-is or re-remix them by adding, deleting, or moving content as needed. Remember, this is your opportunity to create your free customized Spanish OER.
We will be working on a second edition of Entrada Libre with updated modules and to address the additional content added on Tarea Libre 2 . We expect to release it by the end of summer 2025.
Below we show examples of third-semester and fourth-semester textbook remixes with the sources and a list of content and activities by chapter.
Spanish 2A: Intermediate Spanish (Chabot College). Below you can find the breakdown of grammar topics covered on this remix:
-
1.1 Los números -
1.2 Los comparativos
-
1.3 El presente del indicativo
-
1.4 Ser y estar. Ir + a + infinitivo
-
2.1 El imperfecto
-
2.2 El pretérito
-
2.3 El pretérito en contraste con el imperfecto
-
2.4 Verbos como gustar
-
3.1 Parte 1: Las formas del subjuntivo
-
3.2 Parte 2: El subjuntivo en cláusulas nominales
-
3.3 Parte 3: El subjuntivo en cláusulas adjetivales
-
3.4 Parte 4: El subjuntivo en cláusulas adverbiales
-
4.1 Los pronombres de objeto directo
-
4.2 Los pronombres de objeto indirecto
-
4.3 Usos comunes de "se"
-
4.4 El pretérito perfecto
Spanish 2B: Advanced Spanish (Chabot College). Below you can find the breakdown of the grammar topics on this remix:
-
5.1 El futuro
-
5.2 El condicional
-
5.3 Los pronombres de objeto directo y de objeto indirecto
-
5.4 Las preposiciones por y para
-
6.1 Cláusulas con “si”
-
6.2 El imperfecto del subjuntivo
-
6.3 Cláusulas con “si” en situaciones hipotéticas
- 6.4 Los mandatos formales e informales
-
7.1 Ser y estar—Repaso y más funciones
-
7.2 El pretérito perfecto
-
7.3 El pluscuamperfecto
-
7.4 Los tiempos perfectos en construcciones hipotéticas—más cláusulas con “si”
-
8.1 Pretérito vs. imperfecto
-
8.2 Más usos comunes de "se"
-
8.3 Las reglas de acentuación
Thumbnail image by Centre for Ageing Better on Unsplash .