Sophie And The Spanish Magician

With two great stories in each book, learning Spanish is fun with the Spanish magician In the first story, the Spanish magician asks everyone to clap and say three times various Spanish words as he does some tricks like making a coin vanish or animals appear. In the second story, it's Sophie's birthday party and the Spanish magician makes teddies of various colours appear, as everyone claps and says three times some colours in Spanish.

The Spanish vocabulary in this book includes:

Essential words: Hola / Adi s / Gracias / C mo est s? / Muy bien

Introductions: Me llamo

Numbers: uno dos tres

Animals: un p jaro / un conejo / un perro

Colours: rosa / verde / azul / lila / naranja / rojo / amarillo

Food: caramelos

The author of this book is a qualified teacher, with 20 years experience in teaching languages to children. This story is ideal for children aged 3 - 7 but it may also interest children of other ages. At the back of the book there are two pages that may be photocopied for class or home use:

• Useful Spanish words and phrases - To help learn some Spanish words you could create a poster by copying some of the words and pictures.
• A short song that could be sung or made into a rap - how many different versions can you create using the lyrics?

Also available by the same author are the following books:

• Sophie And The Spanish Magician
• Jack And The Spanish Languasaurus (books 1, 2 & 3)
• Daniel And The Spanish Robot (books 1, 2 & 3)
• Daniel And The Spanish Robot - Teacher's Resource book
• Young Cool Kids Learn Spanish
• Cool Kids Speak Spanish (books 1, 2 & 3)
• First 100 Words In Spanish Coloring Book Cool Kids Speak Spanish
• Spanish Word Games Cool Kids Speak Spanish