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

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.

Learn words for clothing items Use 'it' and 'them' to refer to clothes Have dialogues about sizing and buying clothes Have a guessing game about colours Find Spanish words in an article about the flamenco dress.

A lyric sheet for a simple song to be sung to the tune of 10 little indians. It can be adapted to count any noun of your choice, and is catchy.

Jobs with pictures labelled in English and in Spanish so learners can play pelmanism naming the job in the language they are looking for.

A big Spanish adaptation of the story, and a small one to print off for children to take home.

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

This is a nice craft activity or simply a finger rhyme. There is a lovely version of this song by Grupo Encanto on Cantajuego Volume 4. You can see it on the 2nd half of the video linked above.

Chu Chu wa is a marching song with actions that become increasingly sillier. The tune is available on youtube (I recommend Grupo Encanto), and the children can draw actions before performing song as a reward at the end.

This turns into a nice book when copied onto both sides of one sheet. We learn that the word for 'this' in Spanish is different for masculine and feminine words. Then we revise recognising masculine and feminine words and get the sentences correct together. In the books it is pencil first, then pen, then test each other on the sentences using the pictures as prompts.

Colour in the clothes with the words indicated. Cover them with the people, and see if you can remember who has what.

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.

Learners need to place their treasure and hunt for it using coordinates. Clues can be given out using the hot, warm, cold system, which can then transform into a physical game in a large room.

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

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"

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.

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

Medical problems, suggestions, and saying what you have done to yourself. A good look at how to use reflexive verbs in the present perfect and how to say you have hurt your arm.

Talking about what you like and agreeing or disagreeing with peers Studying how to talk about personal data, comparing with peers, and writing a paragraph Looking at the past tense with gustar

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.