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 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.

For anyone not familiar with the game uno, your object is to be the first to get rid of your cards, having put down on a similar colour or number/ instruction. These cards have no number figures or colours, just words, so before the children play they may choose to colour the cards and add the symbols, or they can just cut them out and play as they are. I encourage learners to say the Spanish aloud and challenge each other on the meaning.

First assign each phrase to the client or receptionist, create a dialogue with your partner, then perform it for peers to note the details.

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.

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.

A collection of web addresses I use with descriptions.

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.

Children design their own board, then use these cards instead of dice to determine how many spaces they progress and whether they go up or down.

World cup bingo in Spanish Spanish accent, Spanish sounds Countries in Spanish Come on kids, let's go chant in Spanish

First learn family words, then use gapped sentences to give names of family members. Answer questions to create a more varied description of people in your family and share it with peers.

Learn phrases for giving directions and words to describe landmarks. Draw your own map to include the given landmarks and direct people around. An introduction to using the imperative.

A look at Spanish surnames and where their genesis, and Spanish fornames with gender indicated.