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.

This lesson shows learners how to give advice in Spanish, and has several 'problems' that can be developed and used to practice the advice language. I have also included a 'Ser and Estar' poster making activity because we think about inherent permanent aspects of a person and ones that are changeable in this class.

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

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.

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.

Learners complete a checklist indicating if they find a given aspect of a type of holiday to be a good thing of a bad thing. Learners look at the example scripts, then create their own texts giving the advantages and disadvantages of a place they have visited.

Name all the presents under each card and choose a present. Use the foam pieces your teacher gives you to decorate your tree, taking turns to pass the bag of pieces around.

2 socks with the same design. Stripey, spotty, or plain, the design is labelled in Spanish so all we have to do is name it and find it.

Lots of ideas for teaching these words, to follow up with dotted, illustrated words to trace over and take home.

Children design their own board, then use these cards instead of dice to determine how many spaces they progress and whether they go up or down.

The story is dual lingual and has spaces for illustrations. It works if printed on both sides of A4 paper.

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.

We learn the language by acting it out, then I give the children the pictures to put in order and plant the seeds. We drill the language and reward good speaking aloud.

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.

Using subject pronouns and the verb ser, saying what people do, giving personal details such as phone numbers, and presenting people.

This lesson guides learners into asking about, giving, and understanding opening times, making a description of markets in your country, writing back to a friend to give information about a shop. The Spanish is all quite simple, and uses the present tense.

Blow up the dominoes sheet to A3 paper, and groups of children make domino chains. Then find out about lucky grapes on clock chimes and colour in a sheet about it.

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

A chant to teach learners the parts of the body. Dance with Juanito.

A look at how this structure is used, the pitfalls, using reflexive verbs and plenty of practice.