Author Archives: Richard Graham

A couple of interviews with me

Whilst we’re waiting for my TEDx talk to come online (it seems to be taking ages!), here are a couple of interviews I did this last year. The first is a “Hot Seat” interview with the Thai based Ajarn.com And another with the Ultimate Vocabulary people. Β  Both of them talk about how I started…

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New 1st 2nd 3rd Minicards + Video

I know many of you are using the Spring holidays to catch up on printing and laminating, so here’s a little more to add to your workload. πŸ™‚ Funky Minicards to go with the 1st, 2nd 3rd song in the When is your birthday? lesson. Or if you wanted to be a little more boring,…

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Help Please: Which Picture Books do you want me to add first?

Margit and Trevor prompted me into looking at which of the Genki English picture books I haven’t put in the software yet. Out of the NOT YET ones below, which 1 or 2 would you like me to focus on first? Β  ( It takes time to do so I can’t do them all at…

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Genki English Book Club: Life Ki-Do (empowering discipline tips!)

If you’re looking for something great to read over the Spring holidays …. Today’s book is a fantastic treasure trove of kid friendly, empowering discipline techniques to get away from what the author calls the “American Happiness Formula” (“Look good + Perform Well + Get Approval = Happiness”) into what he calls “Life Kido Happiness…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/genki-english-book-club-life-ki-do-fantastic-discipline-tips/

Best games for really small groups?

Quite a few people have written in asking what are the best games for One on One or really small classes. I’ve written a little on one-one-one here and hereΒ but by far the most popular games for small classes are the mini cards games. Β (In fact I also recommend them to parents when they buy…

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Software Update: Easter + Picture Book!

With Easter being so late this year (Easter Sunday is April 20th), Β it’s giving more people the chance to try the Easter Egg Hunt lesson. And seeing as extra picture books have been such a big request lately, I just added the Easter picture book to the software! To install: 1. Safely back up your…

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