Why it is good to learn Spanish, with the following lesson teaching yes, no, him, her and me, in Spanish.

A tutorial with activities to help build vocabulary and phrases which you can use when ordering food. Two dialogues to exchange with a peer, speaking and testing each other's knowledge as your partner has the Spanish you need to produce. A look at stem changing verbs, with examples to practice.

Medical problems, suggestions, and saying what you have done to yourself. A good look at how to use reflexive verbs in the present perfect and how to say you have hurt your arm.

A collection of web addresses I use with descriptions.

The other person on the phone only speaks Spanish. The children who remain in fluent Spanish conversation are the winners. This resource gives you the telephone template and the words needed for a full half hour Spanish chat.

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

Talking about what you like and agreeing or disagreeing with peers\nStudying how to talk about personal data, comparing with peers, and writing a paragraph\nLooking at the past tense with gustar

Find out what the rules are and the Spanish words for them.\nThink about putting actions to Spanish words.\nPut actions to the Spanish rules words and practice the actions.

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

Lessons for 2nd half of autumn term with suggestions for a class per week ending with a Christmas theme. I hope it is useful to you

The children learn about putting a book together. They choose the pages they want, cut them on the line down the middle, choose card for the front and back, choose a title and illustrate their cover.\n\nIn the next session (after the books have been stapled) the learners roleplay reading a story to a younger child.

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.

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.

Toddler group management will be familiar with the rhyme: clap your hands, 123, put your hands upon your knee. Here is a Spanish version I wrote for a toddler group but use in reception.

Give each child a sheet to cut up, and 5 white slips and one yellow slip. Children play in teams, hiding the slips under the people on the cards, telling the team members who has the golden card and why, then trying to remember where each person has hidden the card.

This is a ready made game for learners to use to practice their numbers in Spanish. The children prefer to use bigger cards so I blow the image up to A3 paper.

3 simple verses with music and words in Spanish and English translation. Good to sing at the beginning of a session. Actions to go with the song are self explanatory.

Blow up the dominoes sheet to A3 paper, and groups of children make domino chains. Then find out about lucky grapes on clock chimes and colour in a sheet about it.

I read the Henré Tullet book to the children, keeping my Spanish comments to 'presiona aquí, rojo, amarillo, azul' and the numbers. Then I got the children to colour in this sheet and cut it out carefully so they have their own Henré Tullet cards to read to me/ each other/ take home.

Children design their own board, then use these cards instead of dice to determine how many spaces they progress and whether they go up or down.