I use a puppet pig, and sing this song and feed him. There are echoes throughout the song, and Chancho notices which children manage to sing the echoes. Apologies for the quality of my singing and the recording - I'm no singer, it&'s just to get the idea accross.

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.

3 children at a time are chosen to be a family and say 'Soy Papa Buho', and have a hug. An interlude under the sheet game, and then children taking turns to be in a fish family, followed by an 'in and out the dusty windows' song with the fish swimming in and out of plants in the water (pieces of green paper around the carpet.

Words in Spanish that fit to the tunes 'When Santa got stuck up the chimney' and 'Jingle bells'. Some changes had to be made to make them fit better, so the translations are there too. I cut up the lines in one of the versions - Spanish usually - for learners to try to match to the translations. Brave singing at the end!

A model paragraph giving name, profession, where you live and where that place is. Bare details to write about given in table form, and a listening exercise / game suggested for after the writing.

Using first and third person parts of the verb the worksheet provides practice for learners to talk about when and where they were born, and the things that they like.

One about the body, one I'm called Maria, and one a Spanish version of the Bibedi babedi bu song from the Disney Cinderella film. Words in Spanish and English and colour coded sheet music.

The illustrations explain the sentences, so the children can work out and tell me what they mean. Once we have had a look at a video and a dance there is a worksheet testing knowledge of body parts named in the song.

The materials here allow learners to create a beautiful wheel that they can turn to learn the words below. The song is logicallly linked to the English version, but not a direct translation.

The children use the calendar to keep a weekly record of the weather, that can then be compared once a week.

Raising learners' awareness of idioms in English and in Spanish, and of how items translate.

Learners use Spanish words for shapes and numbers, and give each other instructions to create the shape using language only (no peeping). Encourage the use of Spanglish - use the Spanish words you can and the English words to supplement.

Simply big block words of the colours for the children to colour in and take home.

Words to colour in Spanish and a space for a self portrait. My learners took them home and put them on fridges etc.

Based on a short story I read at school, this document gives students instructions to produce a play in Spanish to perform for other learners - ideal to encourage the study of language.

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.

The words for colours are indicated. The children are put into 3 groups to compete for points - the mariquitas, the abejas and the mariposas.

Slides to teach and test phrases to be used later to write about a city you know.

Learners identify words with various pronunciation elements, then play memory chain game - 'We went to the shop and bought ....'

This plan gives the bare bones of a play in which a man decides if a woman loves him by picking the petals from a daisy, then in a macabre twist a giant daisy decides if her beloved daisy loves her by picking the limbs from a man. Props need to be made, and dialogue written, but all the needed language is in the plan.