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.

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.

Spanish e-books to support learners as they begin to speak Spanish. in total, over 300 pages of explanations, examples, exercises and resources to help and encourage your students. Written in Spanglish, the English - Spanish mix that maximises exposure to the target language at the same time as allowing full comprehension (as long as the student is preparado to make a few guesses inteligentes). Cognates are used wherever possible. The course is written around 10 themes: introductions, countries, occupations, the family, ordering in a cafe, the town, directions, shops, transport and restaurants. There are also lots of varied activities throughout to practice the basics of pronunciation and using numbers. This book is designed to be easy to use in the classroom, and for learners to be able to read through and remember outside the classroom. It minimises preparation time. With plenty of pictures throughout, 14 point text and double line spacing, it is accessible to dyslexic students. This book has a friendly, conversational style and makes suggestions about how to study and how to remember new words. Non-Spanish speakers have read this book, and told me that they were able to read it from cover to cover. One reviewer said, "You don't realise when it is Spanish or English you are reading, because it all blends in." I hope Spanish teachers and students give this book a try, because I have found it to be successful in engaging my learners and giving them the knowledge and the confidence to speak Spanish.

The children take turns to lead the song as they choose different body parts to be the focus of each verse and of each dance.

A tutorial with activities to help build vocabulary and phrases which you can use when ordering food. Two dialogues to exchange with a peer, speaking and testing each other's knowledge as your partner has the Spanish you need to produce. A look at stem changing verbs, with examples to practice.

This activity for a large group to follow your actions as you give Spanish instructions, will lead to the children hearing and understanding all the words to a simple action song. Thankyou lisilu for your comments - I have added an audio, nothing fancy, just so you can hear the tune

Songs, games, counting and comparing, worksheets to take home and a video to demonstrate how I used it. See more like this on my website: themagicspanishshow.co.uk

Children complete this form to give their name, self portrait, age and drawing of their school to Spanish pen friend.

Learners identify words with various pronunciation elements, then play memory chain game - 'We went to the shop and bought ....'

The monster is a group of 3 children under a sheet. We find out how many of each body part it has by asking it. The monster sticks eg. its arms out from under the sheet and we count them.

Talking about what you like and agreeing or disagreeing with peers Studying how to talk about personal data, comparing with peers, and writing a paragraph Looking at the past tense with gustar

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

go over the dotted letters, choose the right syllables, colour in the pictures.

Colour by number Christmas cards with Christmas greetings in Spanish

As I read this story to the children they have short intervals to do what the children in the story are doing. They end up inventing a game called La monja and el diablo in which some language can be used - either English or Spanish. Every group of children invent a different game.

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

Raising learners' awareness of idioms in English and in Spanish, and of how items translate.

Saying where a place is, giving roadside directions, sying where you and family members live and giving population sizes of major UK cities.

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.