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!

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

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 use the verb gustar and a list of things and activities that learners decide if they like or not, then tell each other about. Learners then write a paragraph about who they are, what they like and what they have in common with peers.

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

Children can colour in the Spanish Christmas words and the pictures, then practice their wrapping skills to make a Spanish festive decoration. It is a good size for the little cereal packets you get. Check my whole lesson from 1/12/11 on 'What we did at primary school' on themagicspanishshow.co.uk

Learn phrases for giving directions and words to describe landmarks. Draw your own map to include the given landmarks and direct people around. An introduction to using the imperative.

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

Words and expressions for weather A telephone conversation about the weather A postcard about the weather A narrative about the weather through the year in a place you know well (invention allowed, as always)

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 practice the numbers 1-12, and learn the words of the phrases in this game: 'What's the time Mr Wolf?' 'It&'s 3 o clock' 'It&';s dinner time' The children play the game with sheep counters on a board.

Captions in English and Spanish and pictures to colour in.

This little dialogue can be used between the waiter and the client as the children choose between 2 healthy snacks to start the Spanish session

Famous Spanish films and their English and Spanish titles. Inviting a friend to the cinema – accepting and refusing. Sorting television and cinema words out from transport words. Spelling out unknown words.

Work the number worksheet to get used to the numbers. Pin up the scores sheets from the top trumps slides. Each table gets a pile of blank animal cards that they have to draw the animal on, and a pile of score cards that they have to complete and stick to the card. The game is used as a treat which helps revision.

Lots of profesiones are strong cognates. Use this video to introduce some vocabulario de los profesiones to your estudiantes. Play the video with the sound only first, and use the pause button to give los estudiantes la oportunidad to answer the challenges, and then write their own. Encourage them to use español whenever they can. Much more slow, accessible Spanish available on Youtube. Search for "spanglish fantastico"

An explanation of masculine and feminine, introducing el and la, and an opportunity to guess the gender of animal words. A test of the animal words is also included. If you can get hold of sing, watch and learn Spanish published by McGraw Hill the animals in this activity are all those in the first video/ song on the dvd, which makes nice revision.

Spanish christmas words. Can the children learn them, and use them as you try to make them say the English equivalents?

The monster is a group of 3 children under a sheet. We find out how many of each body part it has by asking it. The monster sticks eg. its arms out from under the sheet and we count them.

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