The children sort out the animals in carpet time, taking pollitos to sleep in the nido, and perritos to sleep in the cesta. The finger book takes a bit of making, but is very popular. The pages need to be stuck on card then holes cut where indicated for your fingers to come through to be the gusanitos that the chicks go hunting. Only for those who do love clarting on!

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.

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.

A song and jumping dance to get hearts going and Spanish flowing first thing. Enjoy! I have included a ropey version of me singing the original song to give you an idea of the tune. Listen on low volume!

Phrases about shopping Demonstrative pronouns Practice saying prices A dialogue assessment to prepare and record.

We learn body parts as a warm up simon says game. I read the book to the children and we talk about what it means. The children have a copy of the book to colour, and draw their own monster. To support learning I send a sheet home for the children to use with their parents.

I will wait for you! There are many examples of the future simple in this Matt Monroe song (that you can download from Amazon for pence), and because he is English the words are very clearly pronounced. Activities to open the song for learners.

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.

Using the verb gustar Giving degrees of how much you like stuff Emphasizing gustar Using gustar in different tenses

Learners study the present perfect then create a doctor -.patient dialogue. For homework they note what chores people in their home do over the course of the week then report back to peers.

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.

The colour guessing game using different coloured socks in bags. I have included a daft video of myself playing the game with a Spanish speaking puppet!

Read about the festivals and use the rubric to write about them. Listen to what peers found out and extract details from what they say, to be noted on the Festivals compliment document.

A presentation of how to tell the time in Spanish, and a sheet of train departure and arrival times for practicing.

Match the pictures of animals to the words - so many are easy to guess. Complete your book - all you need to do is write in 'Este' - this - at the beginning of each sentence, and colour in the animals.

The children use the books to find translations for English polite phrases, then we made posters to display 'Las palabras mágicas' in the classroom.

Presentation and testing of directions vocabulary, followed by opportunities to practice phrases giving and taking directions to popular tourist destinations from Madrid.

Materials to build a short dialogue to be repeated with many friends - find out how you partner is, why they feel that way, and invite them out. Will they say yes, or give you a good excuse not to come with you.