Had a busy day today. Started off with a Genki English chat with a teacher who’d flown in from Jeju in Korea. That was good. Then off to my “mini workshop”. The good thing about today was it was nice and pressure free so I could try some ideas and techniques which I hadn’t done with teachers before. Most of them went really well, especially Number Golf, but doing the How many? song and getting teachers to collect points, pens etc. failed miserably!

Luckily everyone gave some good ideas, so what we did was:
* Sing the chorus with the hand in hand folkdance like in Fruit Market
* Then everyone gets in a big circle
* I chose one person and from this person we all counted round 1 to 12.
* I stopped the CD player.
* We all shout out “How many points do you have?”
* The person who was the last number 12 shouts out an answer e.g. 3,4, 6 etc.
* Everyone gets into groups of that number and sits down.
* Start the CD and start dancing again.

Combining this with the Mingle style game really worked, which was a big relief!

Here are the rest of the ideas:

When, when, when song
Numbers Golf
Body Balloon Game ( like the balloon game but only with parts of the body)
Koala game ( with Kids English Happy Chan)
How many? Song
Magic Corner
+ secret bonus song!