Interesting post on the BBC today about how… “Waving your arms, wriggling your fingers and striding around a room can help you learn faster.“ For a long time we’ve known how well it works with phonics, language learning, things like telling the time and high powered business communicators (think CEOs, Presidents etc. who are always very deliberate…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/gestures-help-you-learn-faster-says-the-bbc/
Yep, that’s me in a suit! After seeing my May schedule lots of teachers have written in asking: What on Earth do you have for breakfast? And where do you get all your energy from? The easy answer is “It all comes from the students!” 🙂 (Which is certainly true in that with a great…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/where-do-i-get-all-my-energy/
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. Both of them talk about how I started…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/a-couple-of-interviews-with-me/
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. 🙂 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,…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/new-1st-2nd-3rd-minicards-video/
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? ( It takes time to do so I can’t do them all at…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/help-please-which-picture-books-do-you-want-me-to-add-first/
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/
