Long time VIP members will know that we used to have a thriving, amazing community of teachers over on the VIP Forums. It used to be my daily source of energy & inspiration and was an amazing community. You can still of course read all those posts ( and particular the skits, stories and plays for…

Just a quick tip for the Haunted House lesson.  If you look carefully, every time you play the song a different person appears in each room! So a great activity is to get the kids to shout out who appears in each room! And because it’s random, and you don’t know who is going to…

Did you notice any familiar music in the Disco Update of Fortnite last night? 🙂 Yep, Genki is everywhere! Ninja Tip:  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, ask your kids 🙂  Using “Fortnite” to power up tired students? One other really cool tip for using the power of Fortnite… 1. If the kids…

I put a quick version of this on Instagram the other day,  and here is the more in-depth 3 minute version 🙂 Language learning (or teaching) is just like Lego. At first you start with a blank piece of paper. (Although a skilled teacher will be able to show you that you already know many…

Quite a few of you seemed impressed with the Instragram video I put up the other day and in particular the amount of students in the “class” Obviously these days my job is helping teachers so I don’t get to teach kids as often as I’d like (  kids are way easier to teach 🙂…

For any of our students it can be quite overwhelming to have too much presented at once.   That’s why I stick to the 1,2,3 lesson plan.   Keep it simple and present the minimum possible to get the results. And of course it can always be nice, later on,  to get some new surprises or…