Learners complete a checklist indicating if they find a given aspect of a type of holiday to be a good thing of a bad thing. Learners look at the example scripts, then create their own texts giving the advantages and disadvantages of a place they have visited.

Learners are given time words relating to the future to put in chronological order, starting from now. Learners match verbs to their collocations, then interview peers about when they will do the actions on the list, inventing answers if necessary.

Introducing will and going to futures, the learners build a monologue and a dialogue about their forthcoming vacation followed by a performance for a group of peers who need to note details.

Materials to build a short dialogue to be repeated with many friends - find out how you partner is, why they feel that way, and invite them out. Will they say yes, or give you a good excuse not to come with you.

An investigation of Ir and Irse, with examples to match to translations, and a song with dual language lyrics from Spanglish Academy on Youtube.

Learners use a questionnaire to think about their diets and to use adverbs of frequency. Then learners watch a youtube Spanish tv chef prepare a typical recipe with a comprehension worksheet in Spanish to answer.

A series of notes and activities to learn vocabulary related to finding an appropriate flat.

Powerpoint support for a video from the wonderful videoele site (ele = español como lengua extranjera). The topic in this one is words connected with airline travel.

Questions in Spanish to find out how other people see themselves.

Different ways of saying goodbye and various slides to help learners practice them.

Presentation of gustar and how to use it to say what you like about your town (or not).

A presentation of how to use the verb gustar and a list of things and activities that learners decide if they like or not, then tell each other about. Learners then write a paragraph about who they are, what they like and what they have in common with peers.

Present tense of regular, reflexive, irregular and stem changing verbs with some opportunities for practice.

Presentation and testing of directions vocabulary, followed by opportunities to practice phrases giving and taking directions to popular tourist destinations from Madrid.

Phrases about car rental which learners may use to try to complete dialogues about car rental.

This gives learners the chance to write a letter at an early stage of their learning, explaining where a friend will be able to find different items in a department store.

The colour guessing game using different coloured socks in bags. I have included a daft video of myself playing the game with a Spanish speaking puppet!

Learners study character adjectives, then use a rubrick to write a letter that describes themselves. On reading out the letters other learners must guess who in the class wrote that.

I give my learners a greetings card with the term dates I want them to remember.

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