After the Memorization Webinar last week – thank you everyone who attended, and sorry for those who couldn’t get in! – here’s one of the techniques that I used to use as a language learner to basically memorize the top 1000 words of a language as quickly as possible. This is the first part of…

Hello, Today, just to make sure you get amazing results for your students,  I want to cover two big “don’t do!”s in teaching English. So they are,  DON’T teach grammar and DON’T teach writing. “But what …..?”   I can imagine you saying, “We have to teach the textbook and the tests!” 😬 Well,  let…

Happy New Year!  I hope you had a fantastic holiday! And to get the brand new 2019 off to a flying start I’ve just uploaded the 2019 Homework Calendars. You can find them over on the VIP printables page – enjoy! Be genki, Richard

One of the things we’ve found with the Advanced course, and with all courses really, is that if you set a timer for an hour, it takes an hour.  If you don’t set a timer…. well, it could take forever. 🙂  It’s called Parkinson’s law and it basically says a task fills the time you…

It’s been great seeing everyone interact over on the Genki English Facebook Group  (it’s free for teachers, you just have to answer a couple of questions.) One of the things that I’ve been trying to do over there is instead of simply giving everyone the answers i.e. old fashioned Victorian style teaching,  I always try…

Quite a few people have written in to ask what’s the easiest way to do a Christmas play or presentation using Genki English. There are quite a few you can do (and lots on the skits & stories forum page) but the easiest one by far is the Gingerbread Man. If you’ve done “How are…