VerbMaster × Voces Digital
If your school uses Voces por el mundo, VerbMaster has ready-made curriculum templates for all four levels — built directly against each book's scope and sequence.
Each level has its own instructor companion guide below, walking you through how the VerbMaster assignments map to the textbook chapters, how to pace them across the year, and the small handful of places where VerbMaster and Voces frame content differently (so you can pre-empt confusion in class).
The Voces VerbMaster curricula are cumulative: each level builds on the prior, and Levels 2-4 open with a Repaso block that reviews every conjugation type from earlier books. By the end of Voces 4, a student who's used VerbMaster all four years has drilled every tense in the Spanish system — present, preterite, imperfect, future, commands, present and past participle, present and imperfect subjunctive, and conditional — across VerbMaster's curated set of 64 verbs.
That set isn't arbitrary: it's hand-picked to cover every conjugation pattern students will run into in real Spanish — regular, irregular, stem-changing, spell-changing, reflexive, and the gustar family. Master these 64, and any new verb becomes conjugable on sight. (More on the methodology in the Conjugation Cascade if you want the deeper story.)
The textbook teaches usage (when to use ser vs. estar, pretérito vs. imperfecto, etc.); VerbMaster handles the conjugation drilling. The two run alongside each other.
This is the only place where VerbMaster and Voces frame the same content noticeably differently. Worth knowing about so you can pre-empt confusion. Voces 1 is where this becomes relevant — VerbMaster places the gustar drill at Chapter 7, not at Chapter 2 where the textbook first introduces it, so the conversation can happen alongside the indirect-object pronoun work.
The textbook teaches gustar as a construction: a mí me gusta el café ("I like coffee") — me/te/le/nos/os/les + 3rd-person gusta/gustan. That's how gustar is actually used in everyday Spanish.
VerbMaster drills the full conjugation: yo gusto, tú gustas, él gusta, nosotros gustamos… These forms exist — they grammatically mean "I please [someone]" etc. — but they're uncommon in everyday speech.
This is intentional. Gustar grammatically is a regular -ar verb. The textbook's construction is a usage pattern built on top of a normal verb, not a special-case grammar rule. Drilling the full paradigm gives students the underlying scaffolding to understand why the construction works — me gusta el café literally means "the coffee pleases me," with coffee as the grammatical subject. The same logic applies to encantar, doler, and other gustar-family verbs throughout the series.
Suggested 5-minute classroom note when students hit the gustar assignment:
"Gustar literally means 'to please.' Your book has taught you the most common way to use it: me gusta = 'it is pleasing to me' = 'I like it.' VerbMaster is going to ask you to conjugate gustar like any other -ar verb — yo gusto, tú gustas… — because grammatically it is one. Both views are correct; knowing both makes your Spanish stronger."
Voces 3 introduces presente perfecto; Voces 4 adds pluscuamperfecto, futuro perfecto, condicional compuesto, and pluscuamperfecto del subjuntivo. VerbMaster doesn't drill the full compound conjugation for any of them — students would conjugate haber over and over in five different tenses paired with hundreds of past participles, which is repetitive without being useful.
Instead, the curriculum splits each compound into its two building blocks:
Foundational present tense across all variants (regular, irregular, stem-changing, reflexive, present participle). Built around the Voces 1 chapter order with one deliberate exception: the gustar drill sits at Chapter 7 alongside encantar and IOPs, not at Chapter 2 — the natural moment to reconcile the textbook's "me gusta" construction with VerbMaster's full conjugation framing.
Read the companion guide →Opens with one consolidated Repaso del Presente covering all Voces 1 content, then introduces the four major indicative tenses Spanish 2 students need: commands (affirmative + negative), preterite, imperfect, and future. Drops the 1-verb chapter assignments for review content already covered by the Repaso.
Read the companion guide →A 6-Repaso block at the front covers every conjugation type from Voces 1-2, then introduces the new Voces 3 content: subjuntivo (regular, irregular, stem-change, with emotions), past participles for the presente perfecto, and condicional.
Read the companion guide →Voces 4 is conjugation-light from VerbMaster's perspective — most of the textbook is advanced usage of tenses students already know. The curriculum reflects that with a 9-Repaso block + 1 truly new tense: imperfecto del subjuntivo. Compound tenses (pluscuamperfecto, futuro perfecto, condicional compuesto, pluscuamperfecto del subjuntivo) drill past participles only.
Read the companion guide →The Voces templates are built into VerbMaster's instructor curriculum picker. When you create a class, choose "Voces Digital Templates" and pick the level you teach — VerbMaster spins up the matching curriculum automatically.
New to VerbMaster as a platform? Start with the VerbMaster Teacher Guide for the broader picture of how the tool works, then come back here for the Voces-specific details.