Give your learners a great start, with practice greeting their friends, and asking how are you? Show learners how easy Spanish is with cognates from the world of work, from taxistas to futbolistas. Present a little grammar, with personal pronouns from yo to ellos, and a few verbs including ser, hablar and tener. Study un poco de geografía en español, and talk about la familia.

Spanish e-books to support learners as they begin to speak Spanish. in total, over 300 pages of explanations, examples, exercises and resources to help and encourage your students. Written in Spanglish, the English - Spanish mix that maximises exposure to the target language at the same time as allowing full comprehension (as long as the student is preparado to make a few guesses inteligentes). Cognates are used wherever possible. The course is written around 10 themes: introductions, countries, occupations, the family, ordering in a cafe, the town, directions, shops, transport and restaurants. There are also lots of varied activities throughout to practice the basics of pronunciation and using numbers. This book is designed to be easy to use in the classroom, and for learners to be able to read through and remember outside the classroom. It minimises preparation time. With plenty of pictures throughout, 14 point text and double line spacing, it is accessible to dyslexic students. This book has a friendly, conversational style and makes suggestions about how to study and how to remember new words. Non-Spanish speakers have read this book, and told me that they were able to read it from cover to cover. One reviewer said, "You don't realise when it is Spanish or English you are reading, because it all blends in." I hope Spanish teachers and students give this book a try, because I have found it to be successful in engaging my learners and giving them the knowledge and the confidence to speak Spanish.

The children take turns to lead the song as they choose different body parts to be the focus of each verse and of each dance.

Why it is good to learn Spanish, with the following lesson teaching yes, no, him, her and me, in Spanish.

A tutorial with activities to help build vocabulary and phrases which you can use when ordering food. Two dialogues to exchange with a peer, speaking and testing each other's knowledge as your partner has the Spanish you need to produce. A look at stem changing verbs, with examples to practice.

Medical problems, suggestions, and saying what you have done to yourself. A good look at how to use reflexive verbs in the present perfect and how to say you have hurt your arm.

Learners identify words with various pronunciation elements, then play memory chain game - 'We went to the shop and bought ....'

Talking about what you like and agreeing or disagreeing with peers Studying how to talk about personal data, comparing with peers, and writing a paragraph Looking at the past tense with gustar

Find out what the rules are and the Spanish words for them. Think about putting actions to Spanish words. Put actions to the Spanish rules words and practice the actions.

As I read this story to the children they have short intervals to do what the children in the story are doing. They end up inventing a game called La monja and el diablo in which some language can be used - either English or Spanish. Every group of children invent a different game.

Raising learners' awareness of idioms in English and in Spanish, and of how items translate.

Saying where a place is, giving roadside directions, sying where you and family members live and giving population sizes of major UK cities.

Spanish Colours and Nursery Rhymes. Songs, actions and games to learn Spanish colours.

A block of 4 lessons based on farm animals. Children learn to say "I like your cow/ pig/ duck/ dog" through song, and in another song they learn "there is" and that adjectives come after the noun. They practice rhythm, learn about nouns, gender, and that the word for "the" is different for each gender. They also play a game in which they practice saying "I want" and another game in which they practice numbers 1-6. By the end of the block lower differentiation learners will be very familiar with the animals, and upper differentiation learners will be familiar with several key pieces of transferable language. Throughout the block children learn and practice items of British Sign Language to accompany the translations from English to Spanish, engaging children in movement, and illustrating meaning and word order.

This plan gives the bare bones of a play in which a man decides if a woman loves him by picking the petals from a daisy, then in a macabre twist a giant daisy decides if her beloved daisy loves her by picking the limbs from a man. Props need to be made, and dialogue written, but all the needed language is in the plan.

A very simple document which turns into an 8 page book when copied on both sides. The children complete what they do on each day with words and pictures before presenting it to their friends, using the Spanish words for the days.

Lessons for 2nd half of autumn term with suggestions for a class per week ending with a Christmas theme. I hope it is useful to you

The children learn about putting a book together. They choose the pages they want, cut them on the line down the middle, choose card for the front and back, choose a title and illustrate their cover. In the next session (after the books have been stapled) the learners roleplay reading a story to a younger child.

3 children at a time are chosen to be a family and say 'Soy Papa Buho', and have a hug. An interlude under the sheet game, and then children taking turns to be in a fish family, followed by an 'in and out the dusty windows' song with the fish swimming in and out of plants in the water (pieces of green paper around the carpet.

A model paragraph giving name, profession, where you live and where that place is. Bare details to write about given in table form, and a listening exercise / game suggested for after the writing.