Author Archives: Richard Graham

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 “bored…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/how-to-be-happy-a-game/

New Song: Phonics “U U U Umbrella”

I’ve got a new song for you! This one joins the phonics “o” song and “i” song,  this time to get in some phonics “u” words before you start the Genki Phonics course. It’s also really easy to TPR (act) out, and so simple to do. Plus of course there’s a funky twist at the…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/new-song-phonics-u-u-u-umbrella/

My Best Discipline Teaching Techniques & Ideas

At this time of year half my emails are full of praise and wonderful stories (thank you!) and the other half are full of tales of unresponsive older kids, inattentive younger kids and every discipline problem in between. Invariably one group is using Genki English and one isn’t (I’ll let you decide which!) But whichever group you…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/discipline/

Help Please: Genki Phonics 2.0 Proofreading! + Osaka Workshop Nov 18th

UPDATE: Added new pictures for “sh”, “ch” and “ng” stories! (click here if you are on email and can’t see the video!) Thanks for all your fantastic help last week! In December I’m heading back to Africa to teach 1,600 kids how to read. Last time, in January, we had fantastic feedback ( “At the…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/help-please-genki-phonics-2-proof-reading-osaka-workshop-nov-18th/

Monster Xmas Printables eBook – now over 120 pages!

I’ve just updated the amazing Christmas Teacher’s Printable eBook for you with all the latest, hottest Christmas lessons. (Just about the only things that aren’t in there are the Christmas shapes A4 cards and the Gingerbread Man Picture book. Because they are landscape, not portrait A4.) But there’s everything else from flashcards to stickers, from crosswords to minicards…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/monster-xmas-printables-ebook-now-over-120-pages/

Genki English on TV

“Mezamashi Terebi” ( a big national Japanese TV show) are hopefully going to do a bit on the Genki English Thai project sometime this week. Keep an eye out! We’ve also seen schools teaching Genki English  in Tanzania, China,  & India, so today you can see a little of what it’s like  in Japan. First…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/videos-of-schools-in-japan/