Spooky Spanish: Interactive Fancy-Dress Fruit

An interactive KS3 Spanish homework on Tosantos in Cádiz, where market stalls dress fruit and veg up as pirates, witches and vampires!
Why are the tomatoes wearing pirate bandanas?

Every year around All Saints, the markets of Cádiz in Andalusia hold a competition for the funniest stall: pumpkins become witches, onions become flamenco dancers and prawns turn into rock stars.

Students find out about this tradition through three short, self-checking tasks:
• Lee y descubre: two short texts with tap-to-translate words and audio, a keyword match and true/false.
• Los puestos del mercado: match five descriptions to the right dressed-up stall (with one extra picture to catch students who don’t read carefully).
• Tu disfraz de Tosantos: design your own character and build a sentence. Students must make one with an el word and one with a la word, so they practise disfrazado / disfrazada.

What’s included
• Interactive HTML page: works offline in any browser, on computers, tablets and phones
• 1-page worksheet that matches the web page
• Teacher page with answers, a cultural note, and the texts with translations
• Optional student vocab list (2 per page, to print and cut)

Perfect for homework: each task unlocks letters of a secret code word. Students write it on the worksheet, so you can see at a glance who finished.

Language covered: present tense; fruit and vegetables with el / la; es un / es una; adjective agreement with está disfrazado / disfrazada de…; simple opinions (es divertido, es original).

Flexible use: homework, a starter or plenary, cover lessons, or a Halloween / Día de Todos los Santos lesson (15–20 minutes).

Part of the Fiestas misteriosas unit: San Andrés de Teixido · Samaín · La Santa Compaña · Santa Marta de Ribarteme · Las brujas de Zugarramurdi · Todos los Santos en Madrid · El Colacho · El Correfoc · La Noche de los Finaos · Tosantos en Cádiz

VLE tip: upload the HTML file to Teams, Google Classroom or your VLE. Students open it in a browser and their progress is saved on their device.