After the post the other day a few people have asked about doing Christmas plays but figured it would take too many lessons to get ready. Most plays do take a while, but if you’ve already done What’s your name?, How are you? & What do you want to do? and you’ve only got 2 (or even just one at a push!)…
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Maria Jose just wrote in to ask: Although I only speak English to the children and I try all kind of challenges to make them answer in English it’s really hard, and this sometimes is really frustrating. How can I get them to try harder?? Thanks a lot in advance! Well, you don’t have to…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/the-kids-wont-answer-me-in-english/
Christmas (and Halloween) parties are also a fantastic opportunity to get some press coverage for your school and let more people see the amazing work you are doing. It was great to see all the Halloween party pictures you’ve been sharing over on my Facebook page – some of them look well scary! And of course…
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On the VIP forum Alison just wrote in (from Greece!) : With my 5-6 year olds, I’m planning to do the Christmas colours lesson, followed by Christmas shapes. For the next lesson I’d like to combine the two by saying “I can see a red triangle” for example. The kids would then colour the picture accordingly. So…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/shapes-colours-hamster-games/
Lots of people have been asking me how I write the Genki English songs, so in the spirit of the season I thought I’d write this article on how you can write your own! 🙂 Where to start ….. There’s never “one way” to write a song, they all come about differently. Sometimes lyrics are…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/how-to-write-your-own-genki-english-songs/
It’s officially Christmas time, so it’s time to break out the Christmas games! This one was originally sent in by Amy. Preparation: 1. Teach the What would you like for Christmas? lesson (and good luck getting the song out of your head afterwards!) 2. Get the kids to think about what they’d like for Christmas. 3….
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/naughty-or-nice-game/
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