Margit’s comment that we now have 3 animal families, Baby Monkey Family, Baby Rabbit Family and now the new “What’s your name?” kitten family, got me thinking about a song I did for the Kids English DVD & Picture Book series called Where is Baby Cat? with furniture and prepositions. The full DVD version (including a very cool…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/where-is-baby-cat-prepositions-furniture-song/
Whenever I travel it always strikes me that whatever may happen things always get back to normal amazingly quickly. Last night I arrived in Kiev. So what did we do? We went out for dinner. In a restaurant, sat on the terrace with lots of other people, just like every other city I’ve been in….
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/the-streets-of-kiev-what-excuse-do-you-have/
Scott wrote in to reply to the “Opposite of shy? and how to cure it” post What can I do with the over hyperactive kids in class? Well, the first thing is, try not to see the excess energy as a problem. Ideally our job is to just take that energy and focus it…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/what-to-do-with-overly-excited-uncontrollable-kids-in-english-class/
If you want to see the future, and all the amazing things it brings, I’d definitely recommend Inc magazine. ( I get the iPad edition each month and it is a fantastic antidote to the so called “news” sites like CNN or BBC!) And as education is such a huge part of the future,…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/yes-and-game/
You know I normally travel to a workshop and it feels like I’m visiting you. But today, as the venue is a hotel and I was staying here the night before, for the first time ever it was like people were actually coming, from 5 different countries (Hungary, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic & Slovakia), …
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/fairy-tale-workshop-in-slovakia-and-refusal-to-do-the-superhero/
Even though it’s my last day in Italy I seemed to have been roped into doing a series of demo lessons in the morning! Which is fine, after a day off at the beautiful lake Garda and then a day full of computer work yesterday it is actually really nice to actually do some teaching!…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/italy-demo-lessons-vienna-to-slovakia-why-all-english-is-a-terrible-idea/
