Here’s Mido’s game of the week for you: You need a pack of playing cards and a basket 1. Break the students into two teams, black and red. 2. Divide the cards into two colors black and red. 3. Give each student two or three cards. 4. Ask the first student from each team a…
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If you are planning on starting your own school (congratulations!) then a web presence is essential. Word of mouth is vital, but parents will also want to check you out online before they contact you. And in this day and age a website probably isn’t the way to do it. Believe me they are expensive,…
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UPDATE: Click here to see how the workshop went! ============================= Tomorrow I’m doing something a little different. It’s my first Genki English workshop over Skype. To Russia! A million thanks to Julia for setting this up. It is a little scary to see if everything works OK, but if it does it could mean I’ll…
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We’ve had fruits & food, so this week it’s “I’m thirsty.” VIP Members get it as a free upgrade for helping me do the final checks. Songs/Graphics/Vocab testing has all been completed and can’t be changed, what we need to look for here are real mistakes, spelling/typing, buttons not working etc. that sort of thing….
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This is a very cool game sent in by Sara: 1. One person is “The Blob” and chases after all the other food (i.e. students!) saying I’m hungry. 2. When they catch someone they have to hold hands and catch other children ( always repeating I’m hungry.) 3. Until everyone turns into The Blob. Pretty cool…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/new-game-blob/
A few of you may have seen over on the VIP forum that Margit had a bit of problem this year in that her classes were totally over subscribed. She’s just written in with a very elegant solution, that happened to solve lots of other problems too! So far 6 students in a class was…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/start-your-own-school-tip-best-small-class-size/
