Spanish Lesson 8: Colores (Colors)
This lesson focuses on colors in Spanish. The lesson presents basic colors words and then provides
a variety of activities to practice and reinforce the colors in Spanish. Teacher may do all activities
over multiple periods or choose to select some of the activities included in the lesson. The lesson
starts with two videos that introduce the color. A vocabulary list is provided for the teacher.
Introduce the colors using the two videos below. Ask the students to repeat and practice with each
video.
a. This video has a child’s voice saying each color along with an image of something that color.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEJ-ozX2RfM&feature=iv&src_vid=jEJozX2RfM&annotation_id=annotation_2821796725
b. This video asks the question, “What color is___?” and then provides the answer. It
introduces the question and answers needed to describe the color of an object.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAD_lgQPT_c
Vocabulary:
¿Qué color es ____?
What color is ____?
es
it is
son
they are
ENGLISH
red
orange
yellow
green
blue
purple
white
black
pink
brown
gray
SPANISH
Rojo*
anaranjado
amarillo
Verde**
azul
morado/púrpura
blanco
negro
rosado
marrón
gris
* The letter “j” makes an “h” sound
** The letter “v” makes a “b” sound
PRONUNCIATION
RO-HO
AN-A-RAN-HA-DO
A-MAR-EE-YO
BER-DE
AH-SOOL
MOH-RAH-DO
BLAN-CO
NEH-GRO
RO-SAD-O
MAH-RRÓN
GREES
Activity choices:
1. Complete the color by number worksheet (separate attachment) which also reviews the
numbers 1-10.
2. Complete one or more of the coloring/tracing pages (separate attachment).
3. The class can play a color match game on the Smartboard:
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/vocabulary-games/foreign-languages/spanish-englishcolor-match.html
4. ¿Qué color es? Power Point Game. Use the attached PowerPoint presentation to choose the
color that best describes the picture. *Note: when you click a smiley face appears by the correct
answer.
5. Color Touch
Teacher models the activity for the students by saying a color in Spanish and then touching
something in the room that is that color. Next, the teacher chooses three students to come forward.
When the teacher tells the students to touch something of a certain color (“Toquen el color (rojo).”).
(Replace “rojo” with “azul”, “amarillo”, “verde”, and “café”), the three students will each find
something in the room that is that color and touch the object. Next, have the whole class participate
in finding items as the teacher calls out the command in Spanish. (Each student should find his/her
own object. Periodically, the teacher should ask individual students what color he/she is touching.
6. Guess the Color
Students are given a 3X5 card with a color in Spanish written on it. Taking turns, each student must
say in English (or Spanish if they know the words!) three things of that color in the room. The class
guesses which color the student has on his/her card.
7. Color Bingo
On a sheet with nine spaces (see attachment), students color each space with a different color. The
teacher calls out the colors in the target language, and the students mark that color on their sheets
with an X. When a student has marked all squares in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally,
he/she wins.