This Spanish Kapow teacher video supports a practical and engaging lesson where pupils build towards writing and performing a café role play. They begin by exploring Spanish menu items, using language detective skills such as spotting cognates, using context and consulting a bilingual dictionary. Rather than memorising long lists of food and drink vocabulary, pupils translate a menu and create a word bank to use during the unit. They read directly from their menus during the role play, applying phonics knowledge to pronounce unfamiliar words confidently, just as they would in a real café.

This video is part of Kapow Primary’s Spanish scheme of work – experiences. It offers practical guidance on supporting pronunciation, dictionary use and developing fluency through repetition and context. The focus is on authentic communication, with pupils revisiting key conversational structures and vocabulary in meaningful ways. With an emphasis on performance and creativity, this lesson helps to consolidate learning in a purposeful and motivating context, culminating in a filmed café role play that showcases confident language use.

Spanish, key stage 2, Year 4, Unit 4: In a Spanish café, Lesson 1: Reading a menu