Author Archives: Richard Graham

Good Match – Fruits & Colours

Here’s  Mido Farid’s game for this week …. Good Match SET–UP 1. Put fruit flashcards and a series of boxes on the board. 2 In the teacher’s notebook draw the same but fill in each box with a colour.  This is your key. Don’t show the kids. 3. Divide the class into two teams. PLAY…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/good-match-fruits-colours/

Feel what it’s like to start with ABC….

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…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/feel-what-its-like-to-start-with-abc/

Does she have to …. Yes she can.

Here’s another video from Margit to illustrate making long sentences with the Advanced Hip Hop Genki English. This one is for the I have to …. I can lesson. 1. Make two groups: 2. Group A asks about the boy doll (left hand side) 3. Group B asks about the girl doll (right hand side)…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/does-she-have-to/

Lesson of the Week: Rock, Paper, Scissors

Thanks to everyone for the (over 100!) comments on Friday’s “Scratch n Sniff” message.  For those of you waiting for your downloads, I’ve just updated the post so have a look! It is quite amazing how all the comments that mention “April Fools” magically only appeared afterwards! 😉 Anyway…. Today I’m starting a new “Lesson of the…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/lesson-of-the-week-rock-paper-scissors/

New “Scratch n Sniff” Flashcards

========================================== UPDATE:  It always pays to check the date of each blog post! Hope it gave you a smile & I’ll have more cool (and real!) things for you this week! ========================================== Wow, this is amazing! I don’t know if you’ve seen but Adobe have just today updated their “PDF” system to allow real authentic smells…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/new-scratch-n-sniff-flashcards/

TED: I can is contagious….

Here’s a great TED talk sent in by Miko! “I can” really is contagious … As soon as I saw this video I immediately forwarded it to my team in India.  The reply back was “Oh yeah we’ve already been working with Kiran it’s amazing what she does!” P.S. Margit has just blogged about her…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/i-can-is-contagious/