Different ways of saying goodbye and various slides to help learners practice them.

Quiz to exploit BBC video about the languages used in Newcastle United Football Club, concentrating on Spanish.

These numbers help learners to count aloud, and serve as replacements for 2 dice when cut into individual squares and put in an envelope.

There are 7 different images, all quite small. This is a relaxing reward part of Spanish classes, where the only Spanish the children need to say is the word that appears on the card, and 'Chócola' the word I use for 'snap' in Spanish.

I read the Henré Tullet book to the children, keeping my Spanish comments to 'presiona aquí, rojo, amarillo, azul' and the numbers. Then I got the children to colour in this sheet and cut it out carefully so they have their own Henré Tullet cards to read to me/ each other/ take home.

A simple game that only needs 6 post it notes to complete. I present the animals to the children, who take turns to find the animals that make the given sounds. Then the children have a copy of the sheet each to colour and play with.

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.

Some colouring sheets with opposites all related to animals. We try and invent actions for these words and incorporate them into a Spanish dance to the Hawaii five o tune.

I use this to incorporate a bit of physical learning and Spanish to learning about the life cycle of frogs.

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?

Chu Chu wa is an action song to learn parts of the body. Here is a book with each action in it to be coloured in, a monster with the body parts to decorate, and the body words with missing letters to complete.

These are just cards with the words on, which need to be illustrated by the children before they can play dominoes.

This turns into a nice book when copied onto both sides of one sheet. We learn that the word for 'this' in Spanish is different for masculine and feminine words. Then we revise recognising masculine and feminine words and get the sentences correct together. In the books it is pencil first, then pen, then test each other on the sentences using the pictures as prompts.

In this lesson I explain how to preparar una fiesta de Halloween to help your niños learn un poco de español. The key words are: • Bruja = witch, say “brooha” • Araña = spider, say “aranya” • Telaraña = spider’s web, say "telaranya" Las actividades (keep track of los campeones) Preparar la casa or la clase by decorating it with araña chains or streamers. Escribir invitaciones to amigos, using un poco de español. Put araña and bruja pictures about for a competition: ask los niños to go and find ¿Qué color is araña número 1, 2, 3? ¿Qué animal does bruja 1, 2, 3 have? Make telaraña pictures on black papel, using glue and flour. You have to wait until la telaraña is seca. Who made a good one? Make imágenes de arañas or brujas on your plato with la comida. Who can make a good araña or a great bruja? Sing “Las brujas de Halloween” song. Play the Simon Says game with Brujas. Actions could include: fly on your broomstick stroke your cat cast a spell walk like a zombie stir the cauldron jump out and frighten someone Memorizar the short poema that teaches gracias and adiós … el adulto should take out one word at a time, and los niños keep trying to read the whole thing even with words covered. Celebrar with prizes. The importante thing is to use español with los niños for words that they can guess from el contexto, or because they are very similar to the translation en inglés, without it ever being too difícil. And claro, es importante to have fun!

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 simple book that I read to a puppet, then the children can read to a soft toy. A pleasant break.

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.

Students study words for family members - children, parents and siblings. They then study the verb tener, and talk to each other making statements and questions about possessions. They watch a video, then they practice a short dialogue in open and closed pairs asking, for example, "Do you have cousins?" "What are they called?" This is a very structured lesson, giving maximum guidance to less confident speakers of Spanish.

A Spanish seesaw song I wrote to teach young children the Spanish vowel sounds

Whether you have Spanish speakers in your class, or you are teaching a little Spanish with young children, these pages with simple tasks and instructions in both languages might be useful. I cut mine up and make them into little books for the children to take home.