Every week I’ll be featuring a new Genki English lesson that you might have forgotten  about or not tried before.   It’s also a great way to give feedback if you have tried it! Wow, it’s six years since I wrote this song from a request by Rosebud in Germany. (Yes you can indeed make…

The reason I want you to “level up” the goals for your students isn’t just to be annoying. It’s so we can move them on with confidence from stuttering sentences or lack of expression, to something like science, or music or nursing or …. something like this ….. Thanks to Carol for the link.  This…

Here’s Mido Farid’s game of the week, although this time it’s a very useful classroom control activity: 1. Tell the students that whenever you say “freeze!” they have to stop and remain completely still! 2. Even if they are playing a game or talking in an activity they have to freeze! 3. Give points to…

With the beginning of the new school term I’ve had lots of teachers asking which Genki English set is best for them. The recommendation I always give is for the main Teacher’s Set. A new teacher who wants everything in one place to get started and keep going is basically who I put the set…

If you start teaching English with the ABCs,  here’s a nice experiment to try. Have a look at my GenkiKokugo.com site. There you can teach yourself  the  “hiragana” alphabet. Fun?  Enjoyable?  Useful? Hopefully what you’ll find is that if you don’t actually speak any Japanese the alphabet is pretty much useless. 1. You don’t know…