Level 3 · Intermediate · 11 assignments
A 6-Repaso block at the front covers every conjugation type from Voces 1-2, then introduces this level's new content: subjuntivo, past participles for the presente perfecto, and condicional.
Voces 3 has 7 chapters; this VerbMaster curriculum has 11 assignments. The first six are Repasos — front-loaded review of every conjugation type from Voces 1-2. The remaining five introduce this level's new content. Several textbook chapters revisit prior tenses through usage discussion (ser vs. estar in new contexts, pretérito vs. imperfecto, etc.); the conjugation work for all of that lives in the Repaso block, not in chapter-specific assignments.
| # | VerbMaster Assignment | Type | Textbook Chapter(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Repaso — Presente | Review | covers all Voces 1 present-tense content |
| 2 | Repaso — Pretérito | Review | Ch 2 revisits irregulars |
| 3 | Repaso — Imperfecto | Review | Ch 4 revisits |
| 4 | Repaso — Futuro | Review | Ch 7 revisits |
| 5 | Repaso — Mandatos Afirmativos | Review | Ch 5 revisits |
| 6 | Repaso — Mandatos Negativos | Review | Ch 5 revisits |
| 7 | Chapter 3 — Subjuntivo Regular | New | Ch 3 |
| 8 | Chapter 3 — Subjuntivo Irregular y Cambio de Raíz | New | Ch 3 |
| 9 | Chapter 4 — Presente Perfecto (Past Participles) | New | Ch 4 |
| 10 | Chapter 5 — Subjuntivo con Emociones | New | Ch 5 |
| 11 | Chapter 7 — Condicional | New | Ch 7 |
Chapters with no dedicated VerbMaster assignment: Ch 1 (concordancia de adjetivos, nacionalidades — non-verb; ser/estar is in the Repaso), Ch 6 (comparativos, superlativos, doler/gustar — non-verb topics; conjugations are in the Presente Repaso), parts of Ch 7 (verbos reflexivos, saber/conocer, futuro — all review handled by the Repaso block).
Spanish 3 students can start VerbMaster in week 1. At 2 weeks per assignment, the 11 assignments fill ~22 weeks — comfortable buffer in a 36-week year. Plan to give the Subjuntivo Regular + Irregular pair (Assignments 7 and 8) more time if students are struggling; subjuntivo is genuinely difficult and students often need extra practice on the conjugations themselves before the usage rules click.
Heads-up on auto-generated due dates
VerbMaster's default due-date algorithm spaces assignments 1 week apart. Plan to override that — either bump everything to 2 weeks, or weight the harder assignments (subjuntivo, condicional) longer.
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.
The six Repasos at the front cover every conjugation type students should have mastered by the end of Voces 2: present, preterite, imperfect, future, and commands (affirmative and negative). Spaced repetition makes this self-pacing — strong students cycle through quickly; students with gaps see targeted drilling on the specific forms they missed.
How students engage depends on their VerbMaster history:
This is Voces 3's first compound tense. VerbMaster's approach to all compound tenses is to drill the past participle form only (the auxiliary haber is conjugated by the Presente Repaso), then let students compose the compound from those two building blocks.
The full framing for this — and why we never drill the compound conjugation directly — is on the main Voces companion hub. Voces 3 is where this pattern starts; Voces 4 expands it to pluscuamperfecto, futuro perfecto, condicional compuesto, and pluscuamperfecto del subjuntivo using the same approach.