41 Songs in Spanish to Practice Present Tense

Add some songs in Spanish to your teaching tools to give your students the opportunity to practice the present tense in context.

Below is a suggested list of contemporary songs in Spanish to try in class with your students.

We have created a clozeline (fill-in-the-blanks) for each of them in 2 or 3 versions to choose from according to your students’ listening comprehension level. Each cloze is also digitally fillable!

One of these songs comes in a PACK with additional activities to go more in-depth. This will give you the versatility of using them all or picking only a couple of them depending on your students’ needs or your class schedule.

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Songs in Spanish with Fill-In-The-Blanks Present Tense Practice

1. Juanes – Mala gente – Indicative Present
2. Fuego – Mambo para bailar – Present Tense
3. Alejandro Sanz – Cuando nadie me ve – Present Tense
4. Ana Belén – El hombre del piano – Present Tense
5. Cristian Castro – Cuando me miras así – Present Tense
6. Daddy Yankee ft. Ozuna – La rompe corazones – Present Tense
7. Joey Montana – Quinceañera – Present Tense
8. Juanes – Juntos – Present Tense
9. El canto del loco – Por ti – Present Perfect
10. Alejandro Fernández ft. Morat – Sé que te duele – Present, Tonic Personal Pronouns
11. Marc Anthony – Dímelo – Present Tense
12. Maná – Si no te hubieras ido – Present Tense
13. Selena – Bidi Bidi Bom Bom – Present, First and Third Person Singular
14. Thalía – Vuélveme a querer – Present Tense
15. Las Ketchup – Aserejé – Present Verbs
16. Thalía feat. Maluma – Desde esa noche – Present Tense
17. Tony Dize ft. Ken-Y – Mi amor es pobre – Present Indicative, Regular Verbs
18. Pambo – Te quiero más – Present Tense
19. Selena – Amor prohibido – Present Verbs
20. Nicky Jam – El amante -Simple Present
21. Ana Mena – No soy como tú crees – Present Tense
22. Belanova – 1-2-3 Go – Irregular Stem Changing Verbs in the Present
23. J Balvin – Ay vamos – Present Tense in First Person Singular and Plural
24. Jesse & Joy – Ecos de amor – Present Indicative
25. Juanes – La camisa negra – Present Tense and Verb TENER
26. Julieta Venegas – Limón y sal – Stem Changing Verbs in the Present
27. Julieta Venegas – Me voy – Regular and Irregular Verbs in the Present
28. Maki ft. María Artés Lamorena – Loca – Present Tense
29. Matisse ft. Carlos Rivera – Más que amigos – Present Tense in the First Person Singular
30. Juanes feat Nelly Furtado Juanes – Fotografía – Present Tense
31. Shakira – Waka waka (Esto es Africa) – Present Tense
32. Benny Ibarra – Inspiración – Present Tense
33. Gondwana – Guerra – Present Indicative
34. Jarabe de Palo – Bonito – Present Indicative and Gender Agreement [PACK]
35. Juanes – Nada valgo sin tu amor – Indicative Present

Present Tense and Infinitive Verbs

1. Artistas por Haiti – Somos el mundo – Present Tense and Infinitives
2. Sin Bandera – A encontrarte – Present Tense and Infinitive Verbs
3. Reik – Que vida la mia – Present Tense and Infinitive Verbs
4. Maná – Ironía – Present and Infinitive Verbs

Present and Present Progressive

1. Paulina Rubio – Algo de ti – Present and Present Progressive
2. Chayanne feat. Jennifer Lopez – Dame – Present and Present Progressive

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