I don’t know about you but I had never heard of a Russian Tea party before. But after last week’s workshop Elena put on the most wonderful evening full of Russian tea, dancing, fairy stories and some great games. And many of the ideas I think might work great in your class – they were…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/games-ideas-learnt-from-a-russian-tea-party-how-to-teach-fairy-tales-in-english/
Emily wrote in to ask: Hi Richard, I’m currently teaching English in the Czech Republic. Having looked through your site all of your lesson material seems to focus on the 45min lesson plan. Most of my classes are 2 hours long and some are 3 hours long, so I guess I was wondering in your personal opinion…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/2-hour-lesson-plan-or-even-3/
if you’re teaching younger ones, Lucky has just put up a great post with three of her top ideas for getting the little angels under control. The first is her “star chart” which is great for classes you see regularly. And the second is her very innovating “behaviour meter” – she asked me permission to…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/behaviour-management-tips-from-lucky-cool-printables/
Suha and many others wrote in with some very popular questions, so I figured you might find the answers useful too, How to cope with multi-level classes ? A few options… If you have no control, e.g. in a government school, then you have to do co-operative style teaching where the stronger kids teach the…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/how-to-cope-with-multi-level-classes-and-how-to-teach-grammar/
Some people attend my workshops and go “that was nice,” and then the really great teachers, like you, take what I say and make it their own. One of the tips I give in the business sections is don’t pay for any advertising, it’s often too expensive and too hard to measure. Instead I…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/genki-english-in-the-polar-times-how-to-get-free-advertising-for-your-school/
After very successful kids’ demo classes yesterday (which I’ll write up soon!) today’s Masterclass for teachers was totally different to last week’s in Yaroslavl. There we had super Genki English fans with amazing questions who’d travelled from all over to see me. However today we had mostly government school teachers who were very much in…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/masterclass-in-izhevsk-kalashnikovs/
