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.

Materials to build a short dialogue to be repeated with many friends - find out how you partner is, why they feel that way, and invite them out. Will they say yes, or give you a good excuse not to come with you.

Learners are given time words relating to the future to put in chronological order, starting from now. Learners match verbs to their collocations, then interview peers about when they will do the actions on the list, inventing answers if necessary.

Phrases about car rental which learners may use to try to complete dialogues about car rental.

Several food items, labelled in Spanish, on 2 shelves. Learners write sentences about where their items are in relation to each other. Learners cut out the items so they can be moved about, then listen to each other's sentences and place the items on the shelves as described. Is the final result the same as the picture being described?

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.

Having completed 2 songs about wanting and eating bicuits, the children can trace over words in a comic strip and colour in the biscuit picture.

Find the fireman, roll out the flames, draw a firedog (american tradition), match capital and small letters as you find the water and flame partners. All part of thinking about fire and people who help us, using Spanish.

There are 2 little folding pages - one about owls and one about fish. The language and actions may be repeated with these two sheets. I have put the chants and the instructions in the lesson plan.

Name all the presents under each card and choose a present. Use the foam pieces your teacher gives you to decorate your tree, taking turns to pass the bag of pieces around.

2 socks with the same design. Stripey, spotty, or plain, the design is labelled in Spanish so all we have to do is name it and find it.

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

Lots of ideas for teaching these words, to follow up with dotted, illustrated words to trace over and take home.

Products of the farm, milking a cow, making a pig's face, finding capital and small letters amongst the chicks and eggs. A fun lesson that requires 4 members of staff the way I did it.

I choose 3 children to hide under a sheet, then get everybody to sing Debajo de la sábana. At the end I choose children to name the people hidden under the sheet. I use a tune from Diez deditos 'Debajo del botón'. The document I have loaded turns into a little guessing display presentation when I have put a flap over the main picture, so the children can guess which character is 'Debajo de la sábana'. Sometimes I write the first letter of the character's name on the flap.

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.

Lots of activities to learn facial features and colours, and some colouring.

Variations on a theme of 2 little dickie birds. I use a different creature each week, but otherwise the rhyme remains the same. Words, creature faces to stick on fingers, and an audio to hear how it sounds roughly.

A simple song, roughly recorded to give you an idea of the tune, and a nice plenary for reception classes as it lends itself to actions: Jump bunnies, prick up your ears Sleep bunnies, put down your ears. Words and music