Author Archives: Richard Graham

New B&W Fruits, Jobs & Foods Minicards + Sports Dominoes

Gaz is back! He’s just brought you some new Black & White Minicards (What are these?): And some sports dominoes (What’s this?): If you like them, do give Gaz a shout out in the comments, or if you have requests for any more! P.S. If you’re not a VIP member yet, grab your download pack…

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New Game: Preposition Obstacle Course

Dan has just sent in this great idea to use with the Prepositions Lesson (or the cute spider one!) I didn’t find a game for preposition that I could use. So I came up with one that isn’t too original. They were so bored with traditional hand songs and gestures and flash cards – they…

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The Future of Education โ€“ Khan Academy

I’ve talked before about how we can “flip” a classroom, so the kids learn at home , and class time is actually spent interacting with them, instead of lecturing. ย  If you haven’t tried it yet, it willย revolutioniseย how you think about teaching. But there is so much more that we can do. ย  ย Have a…

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What videos would you like to see? + The most popular ones on the site

Are there any extra lessons/songs/games/ideas that you’d like me to film at this weekend’s workshops? (Video is always much easier to pick ideas from than text and photos!) I was thinking maybe the discipline ideas? Or any teaching problems that you think might be cured with a quick video explaining how I do things? Do…

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If youโ€™ve just started as a JET teaching English โ€ฆ

If you’re just starting on the JET programme and are wondering if Genki English is right for you …. Don’t believe me ( ๐Ÿ™‚ ) have a read of this email I just got from Liz: I just wanted to send a big THANK YOU for Genki English! I came to Japan two years ago,…

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Help Please: Baby Rabbit Family!

Next week I’m doing another very low incomeย project for schools in South India, and we can’t use ย The Baby Monkey Family over there. So after their rousing success in the Do you have any brothers or sisters? song, the Baby Rabbit Family are back and bigger than before! But …. it would really help reduce…

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