Learn words for clothing items\nUse 'it' and 'them' to refer to clothes\nHave dialogues about sizing and buying clothes\nHave a guessing game about colours\nFind Spanish words in an article about the flamenco dress.

Spanish Colours and Nursery Rhymes. Songs, actions and games to learn Spanish colours.

A block of 4 lessons based on farm animals. Children learn to say "I like your cow/ pig/ duck/ dog" through song, and in another song they learn "there is" and that adjectives come after the noun. They practice rhythm, learn about nouns, gender, and that the word for "the" is different for each gender. They also play a game in which they practice saying "I want" and another game in which they practice numbers 1-6. By the end of the block lower differentiation learners will be very familiar with the animals, and upper differentiation learners will be familiar with several key pieces of transferable language. Throughout the block children learn and practice items of British Sign Language to accompany the translations from English to Spanish, engaging children in movement, and illustrating meaning and word order.

A series of quotations with English translations. I give 3 groups a different set each, but I give them cut into jigsaws so learners can move them around and find the translation. Learners discuss the translations and the meanings, and decide on a quote to learn by heart and recite.

This plan gives the bare bones of a play in which a man decides if a woman loves him by picking the petals from a daisy, then in a macabre twist a giant daisy decides if her beloved daisy loves her by picking the limbs from a man. Props need to be made, and dialogue written, but all the needed language is in the plan.

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

A very simple document which turns into an 8 page book when copied on both sides. The children complete what they do on each day with words and pictures before presenting it to their friends, using the Spanish words for the days.

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.

This little dialogue can be used between the waiter and the client as the children choose between 2 healthy snacks to start the Spanish session

A look at how this structure is used, the pitfalls, using reflexive verbs and plenty of practice.

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.

Learners use Spanish words for shapes and numbers, and give each other instructions to create the shape using language only (no peeping). Encourage the use of Spanglish - use the Spanish words you can and the English words to supplement.

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.

We learn the language by acting it out, then I give the children the pictures to put in order and plant the seeds. We drill the language and reward good speaking aloud.

The children repeat sentences and guess meaning from pictures. Tutor models sentences without the N and asks which letter is missing. The children write in the letter n on the sheets to complete the words. The children sing a song and invent actions for it, which repeats the same sentences.

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.