Author Archives: Richard Graham

Stickers, Books & Motivation

Only a week to go to Halloween! Gaz has done up some more stickers for you. Here’s how he uses them in class: In class I use these along with a basic points system. If they get so many points at the end of the lesson they can get stickers. Or outside class, in break…

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Pirate Masks & Harry Potter Halloween

A big request for Halloween parties this weekend was masks to go with the “Pirates with the Coloured Beards” theme. So here you go! And there are the regular Halloween Masks to go with the Trick or Treat and Happy Halloween songs. Plus remember the Halloween Harry Potter game part way down the Happy Halloween…

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Start your own school tip 7: How to get more students than you’ll ever need

In this post I’m going to show you how to get lots of new students. As many, or maybe even more, than you’ll ever need. A lot of teachers tend to focus a real lot on lessons, and rightly so. But many teachers also neglect their β€œmarketing” ( i.e. the image they present to the…

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More workbooks! + Pair Work

Thanks for all the great comments on the forum the other day – we nearly killed the servers with all the downloads! I’ve just added in the workbooks for vols. 10 & 11 – they are looking pretty good. Apparantly they are working great for putting the kids in pairs and getting them to test…

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New Game: I declare war on zombies!

The bright eyed might remember this game from August, where the title was a little controversial to say the least! Well, how about this Halloween version….. Of course it is still a “Use at your own risk” game … I Declare War Β – on zombies!!!! Original by Jessica Wendt This is a traditional Mexican kids…

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Evaluation & Imagination Worksheets & Genki English Workbook

UPDATE: All the Evaluation Sheets are here! A big request from many teachers is to have a Genki English workbook to print out and give to students. Usually the recommendation is to pick out the worksheets you like best for each theme and make a book like Flossy has done here: (Click the title above…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/evaluation-imagination-worksheets-cd12-workbook/