Simple Spanish lyrics to the above tune, presented in word art to colour in.

Use these small squares to be drawn from a bag as an alternative to 2 dice. They have all the numbers on them for you to read as you count along in Spanish.

Exchange personal information like telephone numbers and where you live, through situations like meeting in a cafe, or exchanging business details. Roleplay being grown up.

Phrases about shopping Demonstrative pronouns Practice saying prices A dialogue assessment to prepare and record.

Read about the festivals and use the rubric to write about them. Listen to what peers found out and extract details from what they say, to be noted on the Festivals compliment document.

The children use the books to find translations for English polite phrases, then we made posters to display 'Las palabras mágicas' in the classroom.

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

The children in my Spanish club sing this as one of their weekly songs. They learned it while making pet arañas to take home.

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.

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.

Book yourself into a hotel with your teacher playing the role of receptionist. Listen to someone booking a hotel room and answer questions in English. Listen to descriptions of houses and answer questions about them in English. Read about car hire, directions and shops, and answer questions in English. Write letters saying what you are like and what your routines are

Study pronunciation rules, describe property, use the present perfect and object pronouns in dialogues about what you have lost and where you lost it.

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.

Learners read the first page and decide what each person wants. Learners turn to the second page and try to say what people want in Spanish, using the pictures as prompts. I cut them out, so I have a book with alternating pages words - no words, and learners make the same.

I have a puppet that the children feed this food to. Then they colour in the pictures and practice theri writing as they trace the words.

Tía Monica dances moving her socks, pants, hat - 6 items of clothing. Words and music.

These print onto the 3x7 sheets of stickers from WH Smith and I use them to get to know the names in new classes

Choose between a Christmas catch up letter in which you tell a friend what you have done this year, or an interview with a journalist about how winning the lottery has changed your life.

I display this in my classroom so that people can easily look up and spell out a word.

Greet a friend revising past lessons, meet the verb ser and answer questions about it, use esta es and este es to present or introduce a friend, first reading examples and then using prompts to create your own examples, read about the Spanish royal family, in a mixture of Spanish and English, and then do a vocab exercise, prinicipally on cognates, review presentations and using the verb ser.