Author Archives: Richard Graham

Start your own School Tip 8: Best small class size

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…

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Help, My Junior High Kids Are Zombies!

  About this time of year I get a *lot* of emails along the lines of My Junior High School (JHS) students are dead! ย They won’t say anything. ย They won’t do anything. Help!!!! First of all …ย Don’t worry. All they are doing is what they have been taught to do in school, which is to…

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Do you like? Big New Update with Picture Book! ( + Retina Mac Book Pro)

Here’s another update for you, this time for the very, very popular “Do you like …? lesson. As before VIP Members get it as a free upgrade for helping me do the final (stressful!) checks. Thank you! (If you’re not a VIP Member yet, get your skates on, your Download Pack is waiting for you!…

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Harvard University Research on Genki English

ELT4Mafia just put on Facebook about the research side of ourย Africa project. With such a glowing report from Harvard I’m thinking it will make it much easier for your schools to accept Genki English (and Genki Phonics!) Our pre and post course testing data has been put through rigourous statistical analysis, and Emily from Harvard…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/harvard-university-research-on-genki-english-2/

Iโ€™d like sooooo many foods game

Mido’s got another really simple no-prep game that works a treat . ย And it works especially well with the new Food Updates! 1. Write up today’s structure on the board e.g. I’d like some … 2. The first kid says the structure plus one item e.g. I’d like some cheese, please. 3. The next kid…

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New “I’d like some food” Software Updates!

Not 1 but 2 updates for you this week! As before VIP Members get them as a free upgrade for helping me do the final (stressful!) checks. Thank you! 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…

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