Tapas and restaurant menu items with teach and test of hay and querer, plus phrases to use in a restaurant and peer teaching of food items with pronunciation and spelling.

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.

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

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

Child one: Tengo hambre Child two: ¿Qué quieres? Child one: Un pastel Children talk to everyone making a note of what everyone wants to eat.

Snakes and ladders numbered board (in Spanish words), word dice alternatives, and serpientes and escaleras to stick to the playing board.

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.

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

4 minute video to watch (optional) Vocab work sheet consisting of: Match English to Spanish Word search dictionary activity (with key) Observation style quiz based on video (with answers)

There are big food flashcards. I print 2 each of these. One side of the gym is Inglaterra, and one side is España. Then I say in Spanish: 'I'm going to Spain to eat chips' and the children have to race to the correct picture in the correct country.

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

There are 3 games on the sheet. Game 1, each child chooses 4 items of clothing from the illustrated vocab given, and writes them in game 1 column. Then the first learners to tick off their 4 items are the winners.

I take in lego type bricks to put room stickers on, and once the learners have worked through learning adjectives, room names with pelmanism, and made sentences on paper to describe houses, they create home layouts with the bricks to describe to each other.

In addition to these 2 books with sentences about manners that learners earn points for using, I like learners to make a poster of 'las palabras mágicas' - please, thankyou, pardon, etc. in Spanish.

3 short and simple songs in Spanish to start a session: Hola ¿Qué tal?, Buenos días, and Hola mi amigo, with words and music

Here is the song and stickers to put on bodies! I ask the children to try to draw the items if they can.

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

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.

When did x happen? (which decade) How do you spell your name? What does each letter of the alphabet sound like?

go over the dotted letters, choose the right syllables, colour in the pictures.