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.

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.

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

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 took in lots of empty boxes and the children took turns to see who could make the highest present tower in a minute. The worksheet is colouring words and pictures of the game.

Activities built around the traditional song 'Qué llueva' requiring learners to put drops in a bucket, trace a bucket, listen to a story about animals hiding in a cave from the rain, colour some weather picutres, and sing the song (simplified version) I have put my own rough recording to help you with the tune, though you could look for it on youtube.

To the tune of 'Here we go round the mulberry bush' a simple song to learn the word draw and some shapes. There are some pictures for children to trace over with their fingers.

Learn how to say what has happened and make suggestions for a course of action.

A Spanish version of this traditional action song. I mix English in with the Spanish to introduce a little of the language at a time.

The materials here allow learners to create a beautiful wheel that they can turn to learn the words below. The song is logicallly linked to the English version, but not a direct translation.

I have a puppet that the children feed this food to. Then they colour in the pictures and practice theri writing as they trace the words.

There are 3 games on the sheet. Game 1, each child chooses 4 items of clothing from the illustrated vocab given, and writes them in game 1 column. Then the first learners to tick off their 4 items are the winners.

Print this onto card, and the children cut card flaps to stick over the pictures. Then children play 'reading to baby' as they look for the hidden items.

The song counts down the number of spots on your dog as you wash him. The game will be familiar to most people, and I have put Spanish sentences on the cards to be read.

Colour in the clothes with the words indicated. Cover them with the people, and see if you can remember who has what.

The puppet show just requires one puppet and the teacher, and is interspersed with Spanish words that the teacher and the puppet can encourage the children to say aloud.

The children use the calendar to keep a weekly record of the weather, that can then be compared once a week.