One of the big requests I got last week on the “What would you like to see in a “How to teach children English” course?”  was “How to teach English to children of different ages” I think this is the wrong question to ask 🙂 The short answer is: You don’t teach them any differently….

Hello, I just put up this year’s “eTwinning” post on Facebook ( where you can find other genki teachers to do projects with) Hopefully you’ll find some great partner teachers to work with there! Ninja Tip:  With school holidays, time differences etc.  then I usually find you have to contact around 10 teachers to get…

I’m always surprised that some people still seem to believe we live in a world that’s not getting better. Aside from the fact that most of us reading this now bathe in purified drinking water and can communicate with almost any person on the planet, humanity has also achieved other, almost superhuman, feats over the…

Fumie just wrote in to ask: Hello, Richard, I’d like to ask you how do you make students speak English spontaneously in your lesson. Is there anything you always keep in your mind when you teach children? Hi Fumie, For me it’s all with the curriculum.   Kids LOVE to talk,  so if you’re teaching…