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.

Use these small squares to be drawn from a bag as an alternative to 2 dice. They have all the numbers on them for you to read as you count along in Spanish.

Some errors in future sentences Irregular future stems What you will do this week and when you will be able to help in a garden The good and the bad things about different holiday destinations

Go over the dotted letters, choose the right syllables, colour in the pictures

Match the words to pictures in this card game of numbers and food. Could you tell a hungry caterpillar story? or could the children write one based on this vocab game?

Go over the dotted letters, choose the right syllables, colour in the pictures

Give your learners a great start, with practice greeting their friends, and asking how are you? Show learners how easy Spanish is with cognates from the world of work, from taxistas to futbolistas. Present a little grammar, with personal pronouns from yo to ellos, and a few verbs including ser, hablar and tener. Study un poco de geografía en español, and talk about la familia.

Greet a friend revising past lessons, meet the verb ser and answer questions about it, use esta es and este es to present or introduce a friend, first reading examples and then using prompts to create your own examples, read about the Spanish royal family, in a mixture of Spanish and English, and then do a vocab exercise, prinicipally on cognates, review presentations and using the verb ser.

Present or review numbers 1 to 24. Talk about advent calendars, and present the idea of making a chain 24 loops long to be reduced by a loop a day until Christmas. Give teams the strips and ask them to arrange the strips in order before using sellotape or stickers to make them into a chain. Strengthen the chain by laminating sheets back to back. The child who removes the loop on a given day can wear it like a bracelet for the day/ lesson. Learners can have their own print outs to take home, decorate and make up into a chain.

A step by step process to build the practice and vocabulary necessary to participate in a dialogue to order food and drink in a café.

2 colouring sheets - Papa Noel brings presents, and sad and happy papa noel (depending on if I am good), and one sheet of stickers - present from ...\nThe children wrote AMOR = LOVE on a piece of paper and put it in a mini cereal box, then wrapped it and put a sticker with their name on. Decorate the classroom til the end of term then take it home.

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.

I display this in my classroom so that people can easily look up and spell out a word.

Simple Spanish lyrics to the above tune, presented in word art to colour in.

Book yourself into a hotel with your teacher playing the role of receptionist.\nListen to someone booking a hotel room and answer questions in English.\nListen to descriptions of houses and answer questions about them in English.\nRead about car hire, directions and shops, and answer questions in English.\nWrite letters saying what you are like and what your routines are

Study pronunciation rules, describe property, use the present perfect and object pronouns in dialogues about what you have lost and where you lost it.

Covers: the letter ñ; giving your name; yes, no and don't know with a name guessing game; tú, usted and how are you?; how are you game; review of lesson.

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.

A first lesson in Spanish for beginners.

Identifying items from the Spanish speaking world Classroom language Spelling rules Getting to know you questions