This building trades course, one of a series of bilingual English-Spanish vocational education courses, is designed to introduce the basic skills that a student must know in the construction field. It is geared to teach the student basic manipulative skills, safety judgments, proper work habits, desirable attitudes, and proper behavior for initial employment in the construction field. The course covers an introduction to good shop organization and practices, foundations, floor framing, wall framing, roof framing, special framing, exterior trim, interior trim, painting and decorating, and the construction business, providing handouts and transparency masters with narrative for these topics. The course also contains a detailed sample lesson plan on vocabulary for construction workers as a model for teachers to develop lessons for the course and an extensive English/Spanish vocabulary list. Suggested books and films for teacher or classroom use complete the packet. (KC)