Dialogue to 1) colour in; 2) cut out and put in order; 3) use for café roleplay

Learners read the first page and decide what each person wants. Learners turn to the second page and try to say what people want in Spanish, using the pictures as prompts. I cut them out, so I have a book with alternating pages words - no words, and learners make the same.

Print this onto card, and the children cut card flaps to stick over the pictures. Then children play 'reading to baby' as they look for the hidden items.

The song counts down the number of spots on your dog as you wash him. The game will be familiar to most people, and I have put Spanish sentences on the cards to be read.

Presentation of gustar and how to use it to say what you like about your town (or not).

The puppet show just requires one puppet and the teacher, and is interspersed with Spanish words that the teacher and the puppet can encourage the children to say aloud.

The children use the calendar to keep a weekly record of the weather, that can then be compared once a week.

Slides to teach and test phrases to be used later to write about a city you know.

Saying where a place is Saying where you are from and how many people live there Communicative activities to exchange information.

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

Tía Monica dances moving her socks, pants, hat - 6 items of clothing. Words and music.

Learners figure out how the jigsaw goes together, then work out what each label means - self discovery of body words.

3 short and simple songs in Spanish to start a session: Hola ¿Qué tal?, Buenos días, and Hola mi amigo, with words and music

These print onto the 3x7 sheets of stickers from WH Smith and I use them to get to know the names in new classes

Label the fruit with the correct price according to the sentence, then add up grocery bills and write sentences about them.

The children can call out Chócola (what my class says for Snap), as they watch the presentation, then sing a weather song ...

Questions about name, address, origen, telephone number, and new identities to practice the questions with.

Choose between a Christmas catch up letter in which you tell a friend what you have done this year, or an interview with a journalist about how winning the lottery has changed your life.

Spanglish Fantástico is a set of video lessons. They use a mixture of strong Spanish cognates and English to present the learning. The videos have text and the sound together learners can get a good grasp of pronunciation. These are lessons that I am teaching in class, and teachers can watch them and copy the lessons easily. There is a strong focus and emphasis on speaking Spanish in these lessons. My learners access the videos in 2 ways: either they watch the videos before the classes to boost their confidence in class and in preparation for speaking; or they watch the videos after class to review what we have done, and to give themselves time to take it all in at their own pace. (A third way they are using the video books is to catch up with lessons that they are unable to attend). If you are a teacher and want some ideas for your classes, or if you want to recommend some easy to watch videos to your students, then I would love to share my work with you.

Sheets to complete to keep a diary of what we learn in our Spanish club. In this lesson I always give the learners a drink, they choose the colour cup they want (in Spanish) and they sing an adapted version of a birthday piñata song before I deliver the drink. Words are on the powerpoint, and the song is on the video.