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Take any problem in the World and it's invariably caused ( or made worse)
by a lack of education. Too many kids hate school because it's too boring.
The aim of Genki Learning is to have all subjects in all countries taught
in a fun, engaging and effective way. There are already a few million kids
benefiting from this, and even a whole country where the government has
put it in all their schools. But there's still a long way to go!
While I'm on the road you'll hear about my travels & workshops, and
when I'm doing studio work I'll keep you up to date with ideas, updates
to the site and some of my favourite teaching resources. So if you want
to find out what's it's like behind the scenes or how & why I do what
I do or even if you're just nosey or a bit bored, have a read.
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Stephanie wrote in asking how I got the live weather reports on the “What’s / How’s the weather in …?” game.
The live widget I used is from weather.com and it’s called “Weather on your website”. If you don’t have your own site and want to choose different countries, ask the computer teacher, they might be able to knock up a page for you on the school’s website.
The game itself is really good:
1. Teach the weather song and the “Where are you from?” song.
2. Give the kids a map with the countries.
3. They guess the weather and temperature in each place.
4. Print out the live weather reports just before the lesson
5. See who got the closest.
It’s a nice way to combine two themes and it’s really great seeing it click in the students’ heads when they realise that Summer and Winter really are reversed in the hemispheres!
Have a try of the game in class and oh, don’t forget the online games for learning the weather and countries.
There are also some countries ideas on the members forum: here and here and the song with new countries here (part way down the page.)
I got this feedback form in my email this morning:
“This program is really amazing, I have to say thank you so much to give me or show me how to help my kids to learn english so fast ……they love me and their parents said that their kids love English too. Love, Yarlin”
Thank you Yarlin, that is really nice to hear, especially after a hard week.
For everyone else reading this I hope your students feel just the same way about you too.
Enjoy the weekend, there’ll hopefully be some nice new card games for you next week…
Be genki,
Richard
It’s amazing how much stuff is on the Genki English site. Today, totally by accident, I came across this page of 50 Tips to Get Motivated and Genki. It was written for when you can’t seem to get anything done and want a bit of an energy boost. I’d completely forgotten about it, but it’s a nice bit of fun. Here are the top 20:
More are here: 50 Tips to Get Motivated and Genki
Here are a few of the teachers’ questions I’ve had over the last couple of days with excerpts from my answers that you might find useful.
Richard asked about 6th graders:
… here’s an article you might want to have a look at http://genkienglish.net/6thgraders.htm …
Flavia asked about a demo class for numbers, colours and body parts.
… One idea that covers all of them is the Monster Drawing Game Or you could try the Doctor Doctor game Or a version of the Pink Fish game (using number, body parts and colours cards)…
Leei asked about Warm Ups.
…probably the best one to start with is Disco Warm Up or Good Morning or When, When, When or the TPR Warm Up game. ..
And Colleen asked “Do you think 6th graders should go to an elementary school?”
What a great question. In many countries they don’t. But if you put them in high school you’ll probably have quite a few kids who aren’t yet mature enough. So there are pros and cons to both. If I had to choose, I’d probably say “no”. But that’s probably me just being selfish and wanting an easy time in elementary school. What do you think?
It’s newsletter day today and this month’s “Game of the Month” is the first Indiana Jones game.
I’ve been testing it on the site for the last few weeks and the most popular question has been “Where can I buy the Indiana Jones hat?”. Luckily it’s an easy one, Amazon and ToysRus both have them. Plus of course several Disneylands!
I’ve updated the game so that it’s not only useful for phonics/spelling but you can now use to it to review several GE themes.
Keep an eye out for the next Indiana Jones game as the excitement builds before the premiere of the new movie!
Here’s an interesting list for you, 20 words that cover the entire alphabet. If you planned it right you could base a whole hyper-speed phonics curriculum around them. Thanks to Chris Hunt for the list. You can find more of his, sometimes off the wall, ideas at wisehat.com
cat
hat / hot
dog
pig
pen
bus
bed
cup / top
gum / jam
jet / vet
run
lip
wig
fox
yak
quiz
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