Identifying items from the Spanish speaking world Classroom language Spelling rules Getting to know you questions

Some errors in future sentences Irregular future stems What you will do this week and when you will be able to help in a garden The good and the bad things about different holiday destinations

Vocabulary of furniture and renting apartments, finding the right flat for people's needs, and offering your house in an exchange programme.

I developed this resource as a required part of induction for adult learners. It contains words connected with dangers, hazards, eg tripping etc., and after learners have studied the vocab there is a series of questions and a listening text to be read aloud.

A typically drama filled lovesong from Matt Monro, which is easy to understand due to the clear pronunciation of a singer who's native tongue is not Spanish. I have made a wordsearch, strings of words, and gapfill lyrics to engage learners with the song and the future tense. I can&'t include the song here, but I have included guidance on where to buy it. I hope that helps.

Learn the endings for the future verb forms Learn a few common irregular stems Talk and write about future holidays

Pronunciation Telling the time – 24 hour clock Ordering tickets Understanding train announcements Learning and using vocabulary connected with train travel

Famous Spanish films and their English and Spanish titles. Inviting a friend to the cinema – accepting and refusing. Sorting television and cinema words out from transport words. Spelling out unknown words.

A look at how this structure is used, the pitfalls, using reflexive verbs and plenty of practice.

This lesson shows learners how to give advice in Spanish, and has several 'problems' that can be developed and used to practice the advice language. I have also included a 'Ser and Estar' poster making activity because we think about inherent permanent aspects of a person and ones that are changeable in this class.

Inviting people out, saying how you feel, giving reasonsand using verb patterns

For anyone not familiar with the game uno, your object is to be the first to get rid of your cards, having put down on a similar colour or number/ instruction. These cards have no number figures or colours, just words, so before the children play they may choose to colour the cards and add the symbols, or they can just cut them out and play as they are. I encourage learners to say the Spanish aloud and challenge each other on the meaning.

An everyday good morning song. A circle song, with 2 ladybirds in the middle. At the end of each verse each ladybird goes to the circle to choose a friend ladybird until we get to 8 and it stops there each time. (The singing is just for demonstration and never sounds like I would like it to!)

I use a puppet pig, and sing this song and feed him. There are echoes throughout the song, and Chancho notices which children manage to sing the echoes. Apologies for the quality of my singing and the recording - I'm no singer, it&'s just to get the idea accross.

A collection of web addresses I use with descriptions.

A step by step process to build the practice and vocabulary necessary to participate in a dialogue to order food and drink in a café.

Learners read and prepare to perform a dialogue at the chemist's, describing symptoms and asking for medication.

There is a chore or activity attached to each day. This is a challenging but rewarding song.

A series of quotations with English translations. I give 3 groups a different set each, but I give them cut into jigsaws so learners can move them around and find the translation. Learners discuss the translations and the meanings, and decide on a quote to learn by heart and recite.

Learners read a Spanish text with the teacher about what Mexican children do for their birthday, and answer questions about it. Learners study the months, sing the months, and write about their own birthdays.