A series of notes and activities to learn vocabulary related to finding an appropriate flat.

Learners read the first page and decide what each person wants. Learners turn to the second page and try to say what people want in Spanish, using the pictures as prompts. I cut them out, so I have a book with alternating pages words - no words, and learners make the same.

Colour in the clothes with the words indicated. Cover them with the people, and see if you can remember who has what.

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

Powerpoint support for a video from the wonderful videoele site (ele = español como lengua extranjera). The topic in this one is words connected with airline travel.

The colour guessing game using different coloured socks in bags. I have included a daft video of myself playing the game with a Spanish speaking puppet!

A presentation of how to tell the time in Spanish, and a sheet of train departure and arrival times for practicing.

Presentation and testing of directions vocabulary, followed by opportunities to practice phrases giving and taking directions to popular tourist destinations from Madrid.

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

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.

Present tense of regular, reflexive, irregular and stem changing verbs with some opportunities for practice.

Questions in Spanish to find out how other people see themselves.

Different ways of saying goodbye and various slides to help learners practice them.

I give my learners a greetings card with the term dates I want them to remember.

Learners study character adjectives, then use a rubrick to write a letter that describes themselves. On reading out the letters other learners must guess who in the class wrote that.

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

A presentation of how to use the verb gustar and a list of things and activities that learners decide if they like or not, then tell each other about. Learners then write a paragraph about who they are, what they like and what they have in common with peers.

Presentation of gustar and how to use it to say what you like about your town (or not).

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

This gives learners the chance to write a letter at an early stage of their learning, explaining where a friend will be able to find different items in a department store.