The words for colours are indicated. The children are put into 3 groups to compete for points - the mariquitas, the abejas and the mariposas.

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.

I use a puppet pig, and sing this song and feed him. There are echoes throughout the song, and Chancho notices which children manage to sing the echoes. Apologies for the quality of my singing and the recording - I'm no singer, it&'s just to get the idea accross.

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

Learners memorise the basics of letter writing, match character adjectives to Spanish definitions, study elements of describing someone else and their day, then move to describing themself and their day as a written assessment.

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.

Tapas and restaurant menu items with teach and test of hay and querer, plus phrases to use in a restaurant and peer teaching of food items with pronunciation and spelling.

One about the body, one I'm called Maria, and one a Spanish version of the Bibedi babedi bu song from the Disney Cinderella film. Words in Spanish and English and colour coded sheet music.

An early lesson, looking at subject pronouns, the verb ser, asking about jobs, talking about family using simple numbers for most of the answers. Gets them talking Spanish straight away.

Words in Spanish that fit to the tunes 'When Santa got stuck up the chimney' and 'Jingle bells'. Some changes had to be made to make them fit better, so the translations are there too. I cut up the lines in one of the versions - Spanish usually - for learners to try to match to the translations. Brave singing at the end!

Good size top trump cards with numbers to 100 in figures and in words. Backing sheet with common game language which I print directly onto the other side, obscuring what the card is.

A series of songs and activities I used to introduce staff to speaking Spanish, then recorded with a friend (Hannah MacDonald thankyou, you are a star!). The activities include: Now we're going to sing, Count carefully, Paper, scissors stone, What does a giant do?, What&'s 'rain' in Spanish?, F with a says Fa Spanish vowel song, They&';ve taken the mountain to Spain, and What's in the box magic trick.

Mr and Mrs Green get a green letter, with similar for red and yellow. A good, easy to learn song for carpet time.

This battleship grid gives words for hit, water, sunk, the fleet in Spanish, and the grid reference practices 1-10 and a-i with pronunciation guidance

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

Bracelets - inspired by another TES contributor who suggests puttin 2 sheets together and laminating them so they are laminated on one side, then putting a strip of double sided tape down one side before cutting them into bracelets. Also stickers and certificates to make great and cheap Spanish rewards.

I present the shapes and each child should draw the relevant shape next to the word on their sheet. Learners then give each other instructions using some Spanish to build the given shape with the material given (playdough etc.)