You can already say your name in Spanish. What else does someone want to know after that?

Think of two things people often ask next. We will collect a few ideas, then learn how to say them, just as new classmates do on the first day at a school in Valencia.

Here are today's eight about-me builders. The audio plays first: listen, repeat together, then flip the card to check.

Go through the cards twice. The first pass is your name and your age, which is the heart of today's chat. The second pass adds one fact that is true about you, said as a whole sentence rather than a single word.

Endings you can borrow: el fútbol, el baloncesto, la música, el chocolate caliente, el azul, la pizza, or a place you know — Irlanda, Dublín, Cork, Madrid.

On a first day in Valencia it sounds like this: ¿Cómo te llamas? ¿Cuántos años tienes? — Me llamo Lucía. Tengo diez años.

The clip plays twice on the class speakers. Listen for two things, then we will answer the questions together:

• the person's age
• one extra fact about them (something they like, where they live, or similar)

Keep those two targets in your head while you listen. No need to catch every word.