I show the learners the 3 bears and their belongings to teach the vocab, then we have hunts to find the objects that I have put out on the tables. We learn the song and pretend to be each of the 3 bears, practicing our different voices for baby, mummy and daddy. Goldilocks turns up for the book, which I read to the learners, before giving them a copy to colour and take home.

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

A traditional game to throw the dice and collect all the clothes to draw on your body, naming the words as you go.

Go over the dotted letters, choose the right syllables, colour in the pictures

This is a ready made game for learners to use to practice their numbers in Spanish. The children prefer to use bigger cards so I blow the image up to A3 paper.

A revision of the present perfect, with 2 tasks: review what you have done since you won the lottery, and write to a friend saying what you have done so far to get ready for Christmas.

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

The front sheet is printed and children complete details of their school. Then they choose one of the three monsters, and decide on the number of eyes etc. Once they have written sentences about their monster they can cut it out and stick it to the other side of their front sheet. I show the children how to make opening mouths for the monsters, in the same way as Easter cards have chicks with opening beaks. Then the sentences they wrote go on the very back. Lots of cutting and sticking.

Match the words to pictures in this card game of numbers and food. Could you tell a hungry caterpillar story? or could the children write one based on this vocab game?

Go over the dotted letters, choose the right syllables, colour in the pictures

Present how to tell the time, use verbs to give information about daily habits, revise regular verbs and study stem changing verbs.

Words and ways of remembering them. Cards to colour and illustrate in 3 different styles.

Learning adjectives and making them agree with the nouns they describe. Making descriptive sentences about hotels and houses. Making and answering questions about a place to create narratives.

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.

I use this resource to get all the children to say 'soy un pollito' etc., as I divide them into 3 teams for points earning purposes. It links nicely with a story on the growstorygrow website (subscription necessary for that), but also works as a nice session that stands on its own.

A beginners' lesson using ser, tengo and family words.

After playing a traffic light game in the yard (rojo stop, amarillo, slow, verde fast) the children can colour in these lights and take them home. I translate the instructions to Spanish after a few goes.

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

Label the fruit with the correct price according to the sentence, then add up grocery bills and write sentences about them.

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.