Author Archives: Richard Graham

How not to lose your voice as a teacher!

About this time of year lots of teachers start to get husky voices. And I can tell you – from experience! – that unless you change a few things you *will* lose your voice at some point. And if you keep going for years there is a fair chance you couldΒ permanentlyΒ damage your vocal cords. Which…

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Baby Santa put on your … Game

You might have noticed that I added the Baby Monkey Winter Clothes song into the 12 Genki Lessons of Christmas – it seemed a natural addition! Anyway, once you’ve gone through the regular “opera” version you can use the karaoke version to change the words to be …. β€œBaby Santa put on your ….” Then…

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You’re better than the best of the best!

This one is for comparatives e.g. Β Better than ….. slower than …. etc. As it is Genki English, it’s *totally* different from any grammar lesson you’ll have ever seen!   I usually use it in class by having just one computer at the front (plugged into the TV or projector) and one person controlling it….

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My 2nd Favourite Christmas Lesson

I think most of you know that my favourite of the 12 Genki Lessons of Christmas is definitely the Gingerbread Man – you gotta love the ending! πŸ™‚ But my 2nd favourite is the “Christmas Shapes” theme. MyΒ nieceΒ absolutely loves this animation, plus there are loads of great games for it. So if you haven’t already,…

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Workshop Wrap Up

Well that was a crazy day! It’s amazing when you’ve not been to a city for ages just how many people you get to re-meet at these events. Β It’s was great talking to all of you and putting faces to many of you too! I’m at the airport now, but I’ll try a list a…

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New Game + How to be truly, really happy

I wrote this last year, but it was so popular I’m writing it for you again this year. Enjoy – Richard We all want our kids to be happy. Truly, really happy. Some of us try things like fun and games in class. And that helps. For a little while. And I’d always trade β€œbored…

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