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.

The learners put different vocab items (furniture) on different floors in their buildings, describe their building to a friend, and look at the end of the activity to see if they have both made accurate copies of their friend's building.

Read about the festivals and use the rubric to write about them. Listen to what peers found out and extract details from what they say, to be noted on the Festivals compliment document.

Match the pictures of animals to the words - so many are easy to guess. Complete your book - all you need to do is write in 'Este' - this - at the beginning of each sentence, and colour in the animals.

Several food items, labelled in Spanish, on 2 shelves. Learners write sentences about where their items are in relation to each other. Learners cut out the items so they can be moved about, then listen to each other's sentences and place the items on the shelves as described. Is the final result the same as the picture being described?

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.

Questions about name, address, origen, telephone number, and new identities to practice the questions with.

What is the capital? Where is the capital? How many people live there? and more 'how many people live there?' for big number practice.

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.

Jobs with pictures labelled in English and in Spanish so learners can play pelmanism naming the job in the language they are looking for.

The children use the books to find translations for English polite phrases, then we made posters to display 'Las palabras mágicas' in the classroom.

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.

Lesson plan and activities to learn to say what you like in Spanish.

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

Lesson plan with resources to learn greetings at different times of day.

A worksheet to maximise the value of the BBC short video about languages and sport emphasizing Spanish. The children needed several viewings with pauses.

A presentation about Cuba with flag to colour, and a video to watch - I put the video on my memory stick to avoid the school firewall. I loved seeing struggling learners sing along to the song at the end of the class.

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.