Choose between a Christmas catch up letter in which you tell a friend what you have done this year, or an interview with a journalist about how winning the lottery has changed your life.

Small groups of children throw a dice aiming to get 123456 in that order. When they get 1 they can colour in the boots, but only if they can name them in Spanish. For younger children, they can colour in the boots but only after they have traced over the words in Spanish.

In a small group work with each child to edit this book so the names are people in their family.

I show the learners the 3 bears and their belongings to teach the vocab, then we have hunts to find the objects that I have put out on the tables.\nWe learn the song and pretend to be each of the 3 bears, practicing our different voices for baby, mummy and daddy.\nGoldilocks turns up for the book, which I read to the learners, before giving them a copy to colour and take home.

We learn body parts as a warm up simon says game. I read the book to the children and we talk about what it means. The children have a copy of the book to colour, and draw their own monster. To support learning I send a sheet home for the children to use with their parents.

Happy birthday to you song to colour in a sing, birthday activity mini snap game, and a calendar to note all our friends' birthdays.

A Spanish take on the spotty dogs game, with pictures to colour, language to learn, and cards to craft.

Good size top trump cards with numbers to 100 in figures and in words. Backing sheet with common game language which I print directly onto the other side, obscuring what the card is.

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

Snakes and ladders numbered board (in Spanish words), word dice alternatives, and serpientes and escaleras to stick to the playing board.

A simple game that only needs 6 post it notes to complete. I present the animals to the children, who take turns to find the animals that make the given sounds. Then the children have a copy of the sheet each to colour and play with.

Introducing will and going to futures, the learners build a monologue and a dialogue about their forthcoming vacation followed by a performance for a group of peers who need to note details.

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.

I will wait for you! There are many examples of the future simple in this Matt Monroe song (that you can download from Amazon for pence), and because he is English the words are very clearly pronounced. Activities to open the song for learners.

Learners study the present perfect then create a doctor -.patient dialogue. For homework they note what chores people in their home do over the course of the week then report back to peers.

Learners complete a checklist indicating if they find a given aspect of a type of holiday to be a good thing of a bad thing. Learners look at the example scripts, then create their own texts giving the advantages and disadvantages of a place they have visited.

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.

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.

An investigation of Ir and Irse, with examples to match to translations, and a song with dual language lyrics from Spanglish Academy on Youtube.

Words, instructions and cards for children's first Spanish pelmanism game.