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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Colour by number Christmas cards with Christmas greetings in Spanish

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Learners need to place their treasure and hunt for it using coordinates. Clues can be given out using the hot, warm, cold system, which can then transform into a physical game in a large room.

Children complete this form to give their name, self portrait, age and drawing of their school to Spanish pen friend.

Read this simple story in Spanish. The illustrations are in clear black lines for good photcopying and colouring in potential.