Pronunciation lesson with grocery vocab, asking a friend to pick things up from the shop for you, asking for items in a shop, using quantities, packages, and big numbers to describe what you want.

A chant to teach learners the parts of the body. Dance with Juanito.

Finding past tense endings\nPast tense battleships\nSome irregular past tense verbs\nWhat you did yesterday\nTalking about your last holiday\nUsing direct object pronouns in the past\nGloria Estefan sings in the past tense

Learners use a questionnaire to think about their diets and to use adverbs of frequency. Then learners watch a youtube Spanish tv chef prepare a typical recipe with a comprehension worksheet in Spanish to answer.

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.

Words and ways of remembering them. Cards to colour and illustrate in 3 different styles.

Lesson plan with resources to learn greetings at different times of day.

A presentation about Cuba with flag to colour, and a video to watch - I put the video on my memory stick to avoid the school firewall. I loved seeing struggling learners sing along to the song at the end of the class.

There is an English calendar as a backing sheet, a Spanish copy to provide the words. The words on the Spanish one are cut out and placed over the English words, then they can be stuck in the 'today' spot as a daily activity. Works well laminated and with blu tack. I gave one to each child in a small group to use at home, but would work better blown up to A3 if it is for a whole class.

The monster is a group of 3 children under a sheet. We find out how many of each body part it has by asking it. The monster sticks eg. its arms out from under the sheet and we count them.

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 revision of the present perfect, with 2 tasks: review what you have done since you won the lottery, and write to a friend saying what you have done so far to get ready for Christmas.

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.

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

Lesson plan and activities to learn to say what you like in Spanish.

Using subject pronouns and the verb ser, saying what people do, giving personal details such as phone numbers, and presenting people.

A beginners' lesson using ser, tengo and family words.

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

The story is dual lingual and has spaces for illustrations. It works if printed on both sides of A4 paper.

This finger is ... various members of the family feature. Document with words and music.