Carole Nicoll

¡Español! ¡Español! from The Language Factory is a multimedia resource containing over 200 topic related songs and raps for teaching Spanish to children. Alongside the three audio CDs, you will also get a comprehensive full colour e-songbook with Spanish lyrics and English translations, as well as topic related teaching resources and activities that accompany all songs.

By putting everyday language into music, The Language Factory resources are simple and fun to use. Children pick up rhythm, rap & rhyme very easily and so the repetitive nature of the songs and raps help children learn the correct pronunciation and intonation for that language. Being exceptionally teacher friendly, The Language Factory are perfect for use by non-specialist teachers (and parents too!).

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This pack incorporates the original key elements of the ¡Español! ¡Español! resource pack and contains:

¡Español! ¡Español!  Audio CD 1

This CD features over 50 tracks of songs, conversations, raps, rhymes and jokes all recorded by native speaking children. There are also backing tracks, music or rhythm only, karaoke style, to enable the listener to sing or rap themselves.

Topics covered:

• Greetings
• Numbers
• Colours
• Animals
• Weather
• Classroom
• Body
• Town
• Days
• Birthday
• Sports
• Christmas

¡Español! ¡Español! Audio CD 2

Audio CD 2 features further tracks of conversations, songs, raps, rhymes, traditional folksongs and jokes all recorded by native speaking children. These introduce new topics or enable conversation to be extended within a topic, allowing progression to take place. Some karaoke tracks also feature on this CD.

Topics covered:

• Alphabet

• Café

• Colours

• Family

• Animals - (farm, zoo)

• Personal appearance

• Clothes

• Months

• Birthday

• The time

¡Español! ¡Español!  Audio CD 3

This CD completes the set and features a further tracks of conversations, songs, raps, rhymes, traditional folksongs and jokes all recorded by native speaking children. These introduce new topics or enable conversation to be extended within a topic, allowing progression to take place. Basic grammar raps and some karaoke tracks also feature on this CD.

This CD is great for the older classes in Primary School as well as in the early stages of Secondary School. 

Topics covered:

• Numbers
• Seasons
• Transport
• Hallowe'en
• The body
• My bedroom
• Prepositions
• Greetings
• Prayers
• Christmas
• Town

¡Español! ¡Español!  e-Book

Developed to accompany all three ¡Español! ¡Español! audio CDs, the ¡Español! ¡Español! book is a printable PDF resource and comes in full colour and features vocabulary pages, where each vocabulary item has a picture.  Each picture has the Spanish word in blue (masculine) or red (feminine), and also in English.

Opposite the vocabulary lists are pages where that vocabulary is used in short simple conversations, poems, songs, raps and jokes. There is a CD reference for each song, rap, poem or conversation, so that the tracks can be easily located. 

It could not be more user friendly! Perfect for the pupil, teacher and the primary or non specialist teacher, or SEND teacher.

Words in English to all the songs and conversations can be found in the back of the book.

This book is in electronic format and must be downloaded as a pdf (link supplied with your order). You may print or store for your use only as you wish.

¡Español! ¡Español! Resources CD-Rom (supplied as download)

The ¡Español! ¡Español! resources CD-ROM has been specifically designed by an ICT Specialist to enable teachers to gain the maximum from the book and audio CD collections. 

A fully comprehensive 'READ ME' folder is available on the CD-ROM full of ideas for photocopiable games and worksheets. The CD-ROM is also suitable for use with classroom projectors.

With over 30 topics to choose from, the teacher simply prints out the resources when required.

Resource items include:

Flash Cards -
Available in full colour A5 size, flash cards can be prepared so that the picture
is on one side and the picture and the word on the other.
Wording on flash cards is also available in outline only so that colour printers
need not be used and pupils can colour in the word in the appropriate "gender" colour.

Display Songs / Raps -
Songs and raps can be printed so that they can become posters. These can be
permanently displayed or brought out when a topic requires revisiting.
Singing a song or rapping a rap is a perfect form of revision!

Please note that the CD-Rom contents are now supplied electronically as a download

¡Español! ¡Español! has been developed for use with Primary School children (5 - 11 years) and is also a suitable resource for early Secondary School / SEN classes.

This is a fantastic product for the non-specialist teacher and is packed with useful advice and teaching notes.