Author Archives: Richard Graham

Little Known Great Games For Halloween – or Anytime! – Part 2

Yesterday we had some great little games which work for Halloween or regular October lessons, and here are a few more of my favourites! Circle of Doom!Β – review lesson, works great for Halloween (or Indiana Jones themed lessons!) How much? Candies GameΒ – some nice free printables for you to try! Halloween ABC ChaseΒ – a great…

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Little Known Great Games For Halloween – or Anytime!

It’s a big of a games feast today, with quite a few rare favourites that I’d totally forgotten about! Whether you’re into the Ghouls or Ghosts of Halloween, or just chilling with your usual funky October curriculum, I think you’ll find quite a few gems here! Β (Part two later in the week!) Skeleton Scavenger HuntΒ –…

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First Genki English App is here!

A lot of you have been asking about an iPad version of the Genki English software. (It already works on Android) Making iPhone/iPad apps is horrendously time consuming and expensive, so we’ve started with something small to test the waters, see what the feedback is, and if we get enough 5 stars, downloads etc. we’ll…

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How much of the students’ native language should you speak in class? L+1 is the key

I cover this in the Ninja Training Course, but I figured I’d cover it here too as it is a popular question! Β For example Itzel just wrote in from Mexico to ask: In your opinion how much of the students’ native language should you speak in a classroom? I teach english in Mexico and I…

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Orange & Yellow Pirates!

Carol just wrote in from France to request Orange and Yellow versions of the Pirates with the Coloured Beards. Here you go! The Pirate Masks are also quite popular at this time of year! Β  And do check out the orange Let’s make a monster for extra finger parts like “fingers,” “toes” etc.! If you…

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Look at these great Halloween pictures Teresa’s kids did!

Teresa sent in these great pictures from her Halloween lessons, what do you think? This year for Halloween we did Mr. Skeleton Soup and we played with the dice. While the song was going on the students were saying: Oh no! My arm!! I have no arms!!! Oh no! My legs!!! (Without asking them they…

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