Primary School English Teaching Resources: Andalusia Day

Feb 18

Written By Emma

Andalusia Day (or Día de Andalucía) is celebrated on February 28 each year in honor of the day in 1980 when Andalusia became one of Spain’s autonomous communities. Leading up to Andalusia Day, a teacher I work with asked me to prepare an English lesson about the holiday. And in this post, I share the resources I compiled with you!

Since I’m not from Andalusia, and I have much more to learn about the region than I could possibly teach about it, I’ve kept this English lesson very simple. So my goal here was to encourage students to practice Andalusia-related vocabulary in English. I also included a few interesting videos to engage the students visually, and to allow them to listen to someone speaking in English about this region of Spain.

If you’re an auxiliar de conversación teaching English to primary school students in Andalusia, you might find this presentation helpful for coming up with ideas of how to teach about Andalusia Day in English class. Keep in mind, the English teaching resources I’ve put together here were created for first grade primary school students. I also used this lesson with second and third grade primary school students, but with these slightly older students I went through the material much faster.

If you’re teaching English to Andalusian students older than third grade of primary school, perhaps you can take ideas from what I’ve come up with to create your own lesson. For instance, in my English lesson plan, I ask students simple questions about Andalusia and Andalusia Day. For older students, maybe you can ask additional, more complex questions.

In any case, I hope you find these resources useful for teaching about Andalusia Day in English to primary school students.

Complete English Lesson Plan:

To download this primary school English lesson plan as a Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, click here.

Questions About Andalusia:

One way to get your students speaking English during this lesson is to ask them questions about Andalusia and Andalusia Day. In general, I create English speaking activities out of simple questions by asking my students to respond in full sentences. Here are the questions I’ve come up with for my students:

What day is Andalusia Day?
What does Andalusia Day celebrate?
What colors are on the flag of Andalusia?
Where is Andalusia? (Note: must show a map of Spain.)
What is the capital of Andalusia?
Which province do you live in?
Which municipality do you live in?
What foods are typical to Andalusia?
What famous dance comes from Andalusia?
Where is your favorite place you have visited in Andalusia?

Videos:

Andalucía - This short film shows many famous geographic and historical landmarks in Andalusia, Spain. The film does not have any words, but it might be nice to include a visual element such as this in your lesson.

Introducing Andalucía - This video, by the Lonely Planet, offers verbal descriptions of Andalusia and some of its most famous sites and cities. Since the narration is in English, I think that showing this video to your students is a great opportunity for them to listen to someone speaking English on the topic of Andalusia, Spain.

Andalusia: Hidden Gem of Spain - This video includes awe-inspiring drone shots of landscapes and cityscapes through Spain’s Andalusia region. There’s no English spoken in this video, but it might serve to get your students excited. Or maybe you could use it as a jumping off point to discuss the images shown in the video!