It seems you’re all being a bit creative this month, which is fantastic to see!
Andrea wrote in asking if she could have a Snakes & Ladders template to make her own version with more countries for Where are you from?
So here you go!
Ninja Tip: They also make great activities for the kids to draw their own Snakes & Ladders game using the words and phrases they’ve learnt so far.
Ninja Tip 2: You can also make giant Snakes & Ladders games using A4 flashcards. The kids love those.
Or if you’d like your Snakes & Ladders premade you can find many of them here (along with a video on how to play it) or on the side bar of many of the lessons in the curriculum.
Enjoy and if you decide to make your own version using a computer, please do send them in to share with everyone!
Be genki,
Richard
P.S. If you happen to know anyone with Flash skills, I am currently looking for an assistant to help make up worksheets like these for all the vol. 13 themes!
I don’t know how to use Flash. I use Adobe Illustrator to modify and tweak Genki stuff.
Speaking of additional countries, I made a half-sized weather and countries one card left set with 36 different countries. I’ve only printed out half the set as that is quite a lot already! Extra countries I included on the first page along with the 8 (U.S., England, Canada, Australia, N.Z., Korea, Japan, and China) from song include Indonesia, Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, Germany, France, Italy, India, Singapore, and Russia. I included many of those because I teach in China and why not first learn the English names of popular surrounding countries!
I have another set nearly finished which includes Greece, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, Mexico, South Africa, Ukraine, Egypt, Philippines, Argentina, Turkey, Pakistan, Israel, Sweden, Hungary, Switerland, and Portugal…though Portugal’s flag is causing me trouble with the PDF creation only able to make all the little detailed lines so small…
Thanks for a template for Snakes and Ladders. I’ve found that I often can’t just use the stock worksheets you have up here because they include stuff the kids haven’t learned in the curriculum order. Great to have templates and tools to custom make things with the great Genki illustrations.
For my Strawberry class, the class I’m running as an experiment with Genki instead of the vastly inferior level book, I’ve made a number of custom worksheets. Some are basic spaghetti type listening worksheets, others are listening and numbering pictures (I did this with from the Superhero and Pronoun themes and had pictures of different people and groups of people doing different actions and I would say “Number 1, She can stretch.” I used real-life pictures, too. It was great!)
So, like I said, I have no flash experience, but I do use Illustrator to modify the stuff from Genki. As long as I have the resources (the illustrations for each theme) I can put stuff together.