This weekend was a fantastic workshop in Lviv, just like being in a Christmas wonderland – this was the view from the window!
Thank you everyone for traveling in, from 3 different countries and asking so many amazing questions!
Here’s some of what we did …..
- We started with a Genki English review with Disco Warm Up, my self introduction and the Disco Warm Up in Japanese – remember how it felt? 🙂
- L+1 and how much English to use in class.
- Open Loops, the silent period and “English showers.” – fine for everyday, not once a week.
- Then the What’s your name? song, but in German!
- And the stopwatch circle game.
- Plus Genki English Rule No.1 “I can do it!” plus Rule No. 2 Losing means “Try Again!”
I think I tired everyone out with all that – especially having 6 languages (English, Japanese, German, Russian, Ukrainian and Polish) going on at once! 🙂
After the morning break of cake and coffee we did a mini Mastermind Session.
6 Minutes x 6 People on your greatest challenge in teaching, with the Genki Gram messages. Always positive answers, always constructive.
I wrote quite a few comments on these on the Kiev Workshop write up so do check those out.
Then after lunch on the first day we did lots more activities, going through ….
- To show parents what you are doing, the Superhero Song and Presentations for Facebook.
- The pronouns song & dinosaur game – instantly we have multiplied the amount of phrases we can say from 16 to 128!
- Numbers with Thumb sumo leading into When is your birthday? and the games.
- Finally we finished with Summer Sports and how to use gestures to teach the past tense in 5 minutes!
On day 2 we started with …
- The very energetic Good Morning,
- Followed by the Weather song – always finishing on positive words – and the clap, clap game
- Using the computer for pronunciation and intonation.
- Then I wanted to show how you can build up different themes to build up complex sentences. We only got as far as Do you have any pets? but you can then add in the Rabbit Family to easily teach the quite complex Do you have any brothers or sisters?
- Then we finished the morning with a 2 hour crash course in avatars, pricing, the telephone game & how to get more students for your school!
Then a very nice lunch today 🙂
In the afternoon we came back with lots more Q&A and lots more games and lessons from the curriculum.
Plus we started the 5 W Questions, remember lifestyle first, then let’s fit the teaching around it – with the tips from this morning the income will take care of itself.
Luckily all of you were pretty awesome and it was great to have you all on board with modern ways of teaching and not being tied to tests or textbooks!
And we finished on Genki Phonics + certificates
Now that was a lot!
For those of you who will be teaching Genki English as a full course, just start with lesson one of the curriculum and work your way through.
Take it slow. Step by step.
Then email me whenever you have any questions.
And Positive, Positive, Positive. Always “And”s. And keep trying. All students can get all pronunciation. And they can get any English you throw at them.
What you believe is what the kids see, and what the kids see is what they copy and become.
Let’s be super positive, super energetic, help each other as much as we can and you’re going to get some amazing, awesome students – just like you all were today!!
And thank you for an amazing time – Lviv certainly was as amazing as everyone said!
Right, next stop is Cyprus!
Be genki,
Richard
P.S. If I forgot to mention any activities just let me know and I’ll add them, we certainly were flying through them, but all the detailed lessons plans are on the site here i.e. less preparation time for you!
