News 1:  As you may have seen on TV, Shikoku island, where the Genki English office and warehouse are, was hit over the weekend by the big typhoon.  Luckily though we’re way on the other side so everything is back to normal today and we’ll be back to sending out your orders this afternoon. I…

It always pays to have a few “Swiss Army Knife” backup songs and games available for when (inevitably) something goes pear shaped in class. My keep-in-reserve songs are Disco Warm Up, How are you? (VIP members, check out the new Baby Monkey  How are you? cards!) and Superhero. And for my never-fail-even-works-with-any-high-school-class-or-adults ….. this is…

Phoebe in Hong Kong wrote in for help saying that her kids are really, really shy and only ever want to play games.  She asked how to cut down on the amount of games without them getting bored.  Here’s what I wrote in response: Hi Phoebe, if the kids only ever want to play games,…

My top September game for re-starting with a class you’ve already taught is the Hammer Game. It’s brilliant for figuring out how much they’ve forgotten over the Summer holidays! And if you’ve got a new class, then start off with the Genki Disco Warm Up and the full curriculum or have a look at my first lesson…

UPDATE:  Thank you for all your input, Vol. 12 is now finished and ready to download! ————————————————————————– Whenever I test songs with kids they always seem to go for the ones without any “repeat after me” lines. But I also know a lot of teachers prefer to have the “repeat after me”s in there. ( I…