Spanish activity .ppt pack for specialist and non-specialist teachers. Over forty five ready made lessons and activities based on Pedro Rabbit This is Beatrix Potter’s classic tale of the naughty rabbit who has a narrow escape from Mr McGregor’s garden, but Peter is now Pedro, and it is Señor McGregor chases the scared animal around el jardín. The slide show includes the story as well as: Songs and chants that you can build into your routine. There are links so you can easily find them on YouTube, and lyrics with translations to support your class performances. Writing and colouring activities for all ages. Make love cards for those at home, explore and talk about colour, draw and label your ideal house, make a welcome sign, a family tree, a scarecrow, and change the labels on your neighbourhood map so your streets look a little more Spanish! Routine words and activities, such as monitoring the weather or keeping records for watering a plant. Maths activities such as creating bar charts, counting, multiplying and garden design. Physical games and races that use Spanish phrases. Mindful activities such as tallying birds on a feeder, or being aware of the sounds around us. A dice game to collect parts of a parasol and an umbrella, that also teaches the words for sun and rain. Reading activities, including a recipe for small cakes that la Mamá de Pedro gets for her bunnies; and a science text about the onions that Señor McGregor grows. Vocab testing on words in the story, cognates, and a word search that includes all the food and drink in the story, with suggestions for further activities for children who need extensions. Roleplays set in a doctor’s surgery and in a café. There is also a script that children can learn to present a “where is the rabbit?” sleight of hand trick. Whole group activities that you can build into your classroom routine, such as a Spanish version of “heads down, thumbs up;” a finding activity similar to the hotter colder game; a Pedro dice adaptation of Simon says, with suggested instructions based on moving parts of the body; guessing who sneezed (!) and thinking of lots of uses for a bucket.

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)

Printable game and video explaining the language you need to play

Students learn the vocabulary for rooms and spaces in their homes by making a video. Show them an example video with upper and lower differentiated tasks on the accompanying slides for you to print. Let them read the full script. Then set the homework and enjoy hearing them use the vocabulary about their own houses.

A bilingual English girl experiences bullying while living in Spain for the summer. A gentle, enjoyable story about two cultures that includes lots of Spanish words for your class to learn. The children’s friendship issues are resolved by talking, working and playing together. The story is parallel text English Spanish by new author, Natalia Simons and is available from Amazon. https://amzn.to/3pxoIIH Your children will enjoy reading the book and I recommend you buy a copy for your classroom, but you can access this complete lesson before your book arrives. There is a reading of the book available to you on YouTube accompanied by the book artwork and endorsed for use in school by the author. https://youtu.be/drGtlvFntxU In this beautiful cross-curriculum lesson the first sheet, WORDS AND IDEAS, focuses on 7 high-frequency and strong cognate items of vocabulary, followed by discussion questions on the main themes of the story: having two homes and cultures and the difficulties of being different. The second sheet gives children a chance to play with the word RARA, meaning strange, with a focus on rolling the letter r and creating Spanglish sentences using the word RARA. There are then two vocab tests so you can assess children’s understanding and openess to Spanish as a second language. There is no need to teach this vocab if the children have watched the video of the story. The third sheet provides flashcards for 18 key vocab items from the story. You can use these however you like to use flashcards. There is a suggestion for a game of bingo. Make sure you are comfortable with the pronunciation by watching the video https://youtu.be/drGtlvFntxU or play using an excerpt of your choice from the video (if you fancy paying very close attention to the Spanish words that are being used!) The last sheet for students is a vocabulary list of all the Spanish used in the video to present the story. You can challenge the students to re-tell the story using as much of the Spanish vocabulary as possible, or perhaps they can create new stories of their own. It is nice for children to have a choice, after all. Finally, I have included a Spanglish text for teachers, explaining the use of Spanglish as a teaching method. Having tested this text on non-Spanish speaking colleagues, I am confident that you will be able to access this text, whether or not you are already a Spanish speaker. I hope you and your students enjoy the lesson, and I hope that your school buys a copy of THE SPANGLISH GIRL for your classroom. Thank you for looking! I have marked chapters in the video to make it easier for you to navigate in class. By hovering the mouse over the bottom of the video you should find bars to indicate where the chapters start and finish: Intro, Story, Outro.

In lockdown 2020 I set out to create an accessible Spanish course for beginners by making one video lesson per day for 100 days. The complete set of 100 videos is now available on YouTube, and to compliment them I made notes outlining what I thought were the key learning points from each day. I include these notes as a PDF for your students. Most of the people who use my lessons are older, but there are some school age children that I know who subscribe and they have been really successful in learning to speak Spanish. I believe that learning languages doesn’t have to be a formal thing. Learning languages is a natural thing. When you already have a language, the easiest way to learn a language and the most natural way to learn a language is to mix your new language with the one you already have. I create my resources in line with this view, which means I can optimize the amount of Spanish that learners are exposed to without compromising on understanding. This gives learners confidence to engage with Spanish and to speak Spanish. That is what I have found with my learners, and I hope you will find the same with your learners.

1: Decorate your books with cognates and other Spanish you already know. 2: LL sound and What is your name? 3: Good morning, how are you? 4: Christmas in Spain (insert at relevant date in course, obvs!) 5: Where do you live? 6: Numbers 1-20 7: Review and test

In this lesson I explain how to preparar una fiesta de Halloween to help your niños learn un poco de español. The key words are: • Bruja = witch, say “brooha” • Araña = spider, say “aranya” • Telaraña = spider’s web, say "telaranya" Las actividades (keep track of los campeones) Preparar la casa or la clase by decorating it with araña chains or streamers. Escribir invitaciones to amigos, using un poco de español. Put araña and bruja pictures about for a competition: ask los niños to go and find ¿Qué color is araña número 1, 2, 3? ¿Qué animal does bruja 1, 2, 3 have? Make telaraña pictures on black papel, using glue and flour. You have to wait until la telaraña is seca. Who made a good one? Make imágenes de arañas or brujas on your plato with la comida. Who can make a good araña or a great bruja? Sing “Las brujas de Halloween” song. Play the Simon Says game with Brujas. Actions could include: fly on your broomstick stroke your cat cast a spell walk like a zombie stir the cauldron jump out and frighten someone Memorizar the short poema that teaches gracias and adiós … el adulto should take out one word at a time, and los niños keep trying to read the whole thing even with words covered. Celebrar with prizes. The importante thing is to use español with los niños for words that they can guess from el contexto, or because they are very similar to the translation en inglés, without it ever being too difícil. And claro, es importante to have fun!

Consider why the alphabet is useful. Practice the vowels in a catchy chant. Go through the sounds of the Spanish alphabet. Practice spelling words to your classmates. Think about spelling and how you feel about it. Spell out your names. Play the alphabet challenge with a friend.

Spanish e-books to support learners as they begin to speak Spanish. in total, over 300 pages of explanations, examples, exercises and resources to help and encourage your students. Written in Spanglish, the English - Spanish mix that maximises exposure to the target language at the same time as allowing full comprehension (as long as the student is preparado to make a few guesses inteligentes). Cognates are used wherever possible. The course is written around 10 themes: introductions, countries, occupations, the family, ordering in a cafe, the town, directions, shops, transport and restaurants. There are also lots of varied activities throughout to practice the basics of pronunciation and using numbers. This book is designed to be easy to use in the classroom, and for learners to be able to read through and remember outside the classroom. It minimises preparation time. With plenty of pictures throughout, 14 point text and double line spacing, it is accessible to dyslexic students. This book has a friendly, conversational style and makes suggestions about how to study and how to remember new words. Non-Spanish speakers have read this book, and told me that they were able to read it from cover to cover. One reviewer said, "You don't realise when it is Spanish or English you are reading, because it all blends in." I hope Spanish teachers and students give this book a try, because I have found it to be successful in engaging my learners and giving them the knowledge and the confidence to speak Spanish.

Over 170 pages of Spanish activities that you can copy and use in class to teach students about the following topics: the town, directions, shops, public transport and restaurants. The emphasis is on fluency and pronunciation. This course is Spanglish Fantástico, designed to give students the confidence to get on with speaking Spanish.

Give your learners a great start, with practice greeting their friends, and asking how are you? Show learners how easy Spanish is with cognates from the world of work, from taxistas to futbolistas. Present a little grammar, with personal pronouns from yo to ellos, and a few verbs including ser, hablar and tener. Study un poco de geografía en español, and talk about la familia.

Practice remembering the subject pronouns, learn the verb hablar and some useful phrases that include this word, match languages to countries in Europe and around the world, conduct a question and answer session with friends as themselves and role-playing other people, revise the lesson with excercises and animated slides.

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.

Lesson 2 continues on from Introduction to Spanish lesson: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/introduction-to-spanish-11706470 Boys and girls choose affirmations beginning with "Soy ...", eg soy contento or soy contenta, to introduce the idea that some adjectives agree with gender. Children work with professions cognates, eg soy recepcionista en un hotel, creating memory cards they can use to play matching pairs games with friends/ test each other with. Link to La Bamba video with bi-lingual lyrics for the quote "Yo no soy marinero, soy captián." Pronunciation work for the letters J and G, and animated review of the lesson.

Covers: the letter ñ; giving your name; yes, no and don't know with a name guessing game; tú, usted and how are you?; how are you game; review of lesson.

Spanish e-book to support learners as they begin to speak Spanish. 160 pages of explanations, examples, exercises and resources to help and encourage your students. Written in Spanglish, the English - Spanish mix that maximises exposure to the target language at the same time as allowing full comprehension (as long as the student is preparado to make a few guesses inteligentes). Cognates are used wherever possible. The course is written around 5 themes: introductions, countries, occupations, the family and ordering in a cafe. There are also lots of varied activities throughout to practice the basics of pronunciation and using numbers. This book is designed to be easy to use in the classroom, and for learners to be able to read through and remember outside the classroom. It minimises preparation time. With plenty of pictures throughout, 14 point text and double line spacing, it is accessible to dyslexic students. This book has a friendly, conversational style and makes suggestions about how to study and how to remember new words. Non-Spanish speakers have read this book, and told me that they were able to read it from cover to cover. One reviewer said, "You don't realise when it is Spanish you are reading, because it all blends in." I hope Spanish teachers and students give this book a try, because I have found it to be successful in engaging my learners and giving them the knowledge and the confidence to speak Spanish.

Students study words for family members - children, parents and siblings. They then study the verb tener, and talk to each other making statements and questions about possessions. They watch a video, then they practice a short dialogue in open and closed pairs asking, for example, "Do you have cousins?" "What are they called?" This is a very structured lesson, giving maximum guidance to less confident speakers of Spanish.

Lots of profesiones are strong cognates. Use this video to introduce some vocabulario de los profesiones to your estudiantes. Play the video with the sound only first, and use the pause button to give los estudiantes la oportunidad to answer the challenges, and then write their own. Encourage them to use español whenever they can. Much more slow, accessible Spanish available on Youtube. Search for "spanglish fantastico"

This class quiz is peppered with Spanish words. There are 4 types of question: drawing, find the connection, forbidden words (sin permiso) and word challenges. There is a broad Christmas theme, and learners will pick up some Christmas vocabulario while having competitive fun.