Spooky Spanish: Interactive Ghost Ship mystery

Spooky Spanish: Interactive Ghost Ship mystery

An interactive KS3 Spanish homework on weather and days of the week: solve the mystery of Chile’s ghost ship, El Caleuche!

A ship full of lights and music… that vanishes into the fog! Off the island of Chiloé in southern Chile, fishermen tell of the Caleuche, a ghost ship crewed by wizards. Anyone who follows its party music stays on board forever!

Three short, self-checking tasks:
• Lee y descubre: two short texts with tap-to-translate words and audio, a keyword match and true/false.
• ¿Qué tiempo hace?: match six weather phrases to the pictures (hace sol, hay niebla, llueve…).
• El diario del farero: read the lighthouse keeper’s diary, fill in the week’s weather and work out which night the Caleuche appeared. Solve it and the ghost ship sails across the screen!

What’s included
• Interactive HTML page: works offline in any browser, on computers, tablets and phones
• 1-page worksheet that matches the web page, with a “my weather diary” challenge
• Teacher page with answers, a cultural note, and the texts with translations
• Optional student vocab list (2 per page, to print and cut)

Perfect for homework: each task unlocks letters of a secret code word. Students write it on the worksheet, so you can see at a glance who finished.

Language covered: weather with hace / hay / llueve; days of the week (el lunes = on Monday); veo / oigo; reading for detail.

Flexible use: homework, a starter or plenary, cover lessons, or a Halloween lesson (15–20 minutes). It also fits neatly into a weather unit.

Part of the Spooky Spanish series: Fiestas misteriosas, spooky celebrations and legends from Spain and Latin America, including El Lobizón (Argentina), Los Alebrijes and La Llorona (Mexico), Los Barriletes Gigantes (Guatemala) and Gau Beltza (FREE).

VLE tip: upload the HTML file to Teams, Google Classroom or your VLE. Students open it in a browser and their progress is saved on their device.