# Lesson Content Drill Cycle *This is not the 11pm Easy Spanish / RNE session — that's a separate programme running on separate material. This is smaller and narrower: a way to keep what Javier has already taught you from going cold in the gaps between lessons. Ten minutes, every 1-2 days, zero new vocabulary. If it starts feeling like a second full study session, you're doing more than it's designed for — stop.* **Why it exists:** lessons happen roughly weekly. Left alone for seven days, a conjugation table taught on Sunday is noticeably softer by the following Sunday. This isn't about acquiring more — it's about not losing what's already been handed to you. --- ## THE THREE-DAY ROTATION Pick whichever day fits — the cycle doesn't care about calendar days, only about not doing the same drill twice in a row. ### DAY TYPE A — Conjugation Recall Cover the Spanish column of one verb table. Produce it from the English prompts only. Rotate through: **ser, estar, tener, necesitar, pagar, costar** (costar only has two forms — that's fine, drill both anyway). - Get it wrong → don't just correct it and move on. Say the correct form out loud once, then write one sentence using it about something actually true of your day. - Get it right → move to the next verb in rotation. Don't linger on what you already have. **Time: 5 minutes max.** If a table isn't solid in 5 minutes, that's information — it goes on the Error Tracker in the Pre-Lesson Prep Sheet, not into a longer drill session here. --- ### DAY TYPE B — Vocabulary Cold Recall Cover the English column of the accumulated word list below. Produce English from Spanish only (not the reverse — recognition is easier than production, and production is the weaker skill worth drilling). **Current pool (grows as new entries arrive):** alto, bajo, delgado, divertido, generoso, guapo, hablador, inteligente, serio, perezoso, rubio, verde, ondulado, contento, triste, tranquilo, hermano/a, chico/a, nervioso, en, muy, tienda, genial, cliente, también, buenas, chao, cuánto, cuántos, barato, caro, bueno, supermercado, pan, leche, queso, fruta, arroz, busco, encuentro, después, ahora, caja, cajera, bolsa, vale - Any word you hesitate on for more than ~3 seconds: flag it. Three flags across separate drill sessions = that word gets a dedicated sentence in your next lesson homework, not just another cold-recall pass. - Don't add words to this pool yourself between lessons. New vocabulary comes from lessons only — this drill reinforces, it doesn't expand. **Time: 5 minutes max.** --- ### DAY TYPE C — Sentence Reconstruction Take one full example sentence from a past lesson (list below). Cover it. Reconstruct it from memory, in Spanish, from an English gloss you write yourself first. **Bank of source sentences:** - Maria está muy contenta, ella es una chica rubia. - Miguel es un chico tranquilo y está estudiando economía en la universidad. - Cuánto cuesta el libro? - Yo necesito una tele, cuánto cuesta? - Me gusta una caña barata pero yo necesito una caña buena. - Mi mejor amigo se llama Antonio. Es hablador y delgado. - Compare your reconstruction to the original line by line. Differences in word order or word choice matter more here than small spelling slips — this drill is testing structure, not orthography. - Rotate in new sentences from each new lesson entry; retire ones you reconstruct correctly three times running. **Time: 5 minutes max.** --- ## HOW THIS FEEDS BACK Anything flagged three times in Day Type B, or any table that fails Day Type A twice running, doesn't get drilled harder here — it gets moved to the **Error Tracker** in the Pre-Lesson Prep Sheet, and you raise it with Javier directly. This drill's job is maintenance, not remediation. If something needs remediation, a native speaker correcting you in real time will fix it faster than you drilling it alone will. --- ## LOG (optional, but useful if you want to see whether this is actually working) | Date | Day Type | Flagged Items | Notes | |---|---|---|---| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | *Three empty rows to start. Add more as needed — or don't log at all if the overhead isn't worth it to you. The drill works whether or not you track it; the log is for your own curiosity about what's sticking and what isn't.* --- *Established: 16 July 2026. Update the vocabulary pool and sentence bank whenever a new lesson entry lands — this page should never fall more than one lesson behind the Pre-Lesson Prep Sheet.*