A Spanish nursery rhyme - the chicks say cheep, the dogs bow wow - with finger puppets to make, with lyrics and music indicated.

Chu Chu wa is a marching song with actions that become increasingly sillier. The tune is available on youtube (I recommend Grupo Encanto), and the children can draw actions before performing song as a reward at the end.

An explanation of masculine and feminine, introducing el and la, and an opportunity to guess the gender of animal words. A test of the animal words is also included. If you can get hold of sing, watch and learn Spanish published by McGraw Hill the animals in this activity are all those in the first video/ song on the dvd, which makes nice revision.

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.

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.

The children work towards a barn dance with Spanish lyrics, giving and asking for names.

Drill instructor action song and games to play, using numbers and body parts.

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

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.

Work the number worksheet to get used to the numbers. Pin up the scores sheets from the top trumps slides. Each table gets a pile of blank animal cards that they have to draw the animal on, and a pile of score cards that they have to complete and stick to the card. The game is used as a treat which helps revision.

Captions in English and Spanish and pictures to colour in.

Lots of activities based around an Argentinian playtime song about sheep playing in the woods while the wolf isn't there. I have included sound files for pronunciation and my own type of lesson plan. I hope this is useful - it could provide work for several sessions.

Chu Chu wa is an action song to learn parts of the body. Here is a book with each action in it to be coloured in, a monster with the body parts to decorate, and the body words with missing letters to complete.

Hunt round for the right porridge, chair and bed for each bear (oso), have a sing song and pretend to be each bear, with a bilingual story to read and take home.

I developed this resource as a required part of induction for adult learners. It contains words connected with dangers, hazards, eg tripping etc., and after learners have studied the vocab there is a series of questions and a listening text to be read aloud.

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.

Present how to tell the time, use verbs to give information about daily habits, revise regular verbs and study stem changing verbs.

Learning adjectives and making them agree with the nouns they describe. Making descriptive sentences about hotels and houses. Making and answering questions about a place to create narratives.

Study and test the verb estar for location, study words to say what there is in a place through a pelmanism game, then write an e.mail home from holiday saying what the place is like.