Consider why the alphabet is useful. Practice the vowels in a catchy chant. Go through the sounds of the Spanish alphabet. Practice spelling words to your classmates. Think about spelling and how you feel about it. Spell out your names. Play the alphabet challenge with a friend.

Making gerunds Gerunds with Y Irregular gerunds Reflexive verbs in the present continuous

Pronunciation lesson with grocery vocab, asking a friend to pick things up from the shop for you, asking for items in a shop, using quantities, packages, and big numbers to describe what you want.

Present tense of regular, reflexive, irregular and stem changing verbs with some opportunities for practice.

A set of activities and instructions that last me half a term and which give my upper primary children the language to play a game of guess who in Spanish, that they have made themselves. Language focus: facial features and colours

Learn the endings for the future verb forms Learn a few common irregular stems Talk and write about future holidays

Material for children to learn and play with the words egg, rabbit, chick, and some colours.

Vocab and phrase work to build confidence and fluency in booking the type of hotel room you want for the day and date you want it.

Several outdoor activity ideas that combine introductory Spanish with the bear hunt story, songs and games.

First assign each phrase to the client or receptionist, create a dialogue with your partner, then perform it for peers to note the details.

World cup bingo in Spanish Spanish accent, Spanish sounds Countries in Spanish Come on kids, let's go chant in Spanish

Pronunciation Telling the time – 24 hour clock Ordering tickets Understanding train announcements Learning and using vocabulary connected with train travel

A list of events and pictures with descriptions of what Spanish people do at Christmas. Can the children match the pictures to the sentences? Discuss with children what they like about Christmas in different cultures. Show children the calendar for this year, and then see who can remember what comes next.

First learn family words, then use gapped sentences to give names of family members. Answer questions to create a more varied description of people in your family and share it with peers.

Children count / are counted to and change position when ten is reached, from lying down, to jogging on the spot, to sitting quietly. The children then sing / are sung a finger counting song that can be adapted to count any new piece of vocab. This song is easy to find on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghzmrqx09-w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtiC0UV_fQ&feature=related

A delightful story that makes a good first reader. Possible to use as a little play with a narrator and parts, which can be delivered entirely in Spanish as a performance!

This memory game depends on the outcome of 2 dice, and requires much vocal repetition.

Learn how to say I like icecream, I don't like chips, then play a bingo game with these phrases.

Songs, games, counting and comparing, worksheets to take home and a video to demonstrate how I used it. See more like this on my website: themagicspanishshow.co.uk

Irregular verbs in groups of similar changes that I set as a homework