In addition to the 5,000 readers of this blog there are nearly 4,000 teachers on my monthly newsletter that I write in Japanese. After the sad news from New Zealand last month I promised them all that this month I would be back to being “Genki” ๅ ๆฐใthe Japanese word meaning for “fun”, “energetic” & “full…
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Taking a lead from Margit’s excellent comment on yesterday’s post, today we’re back to usual with this week’s game from Mido Farid. ย Hopefully tomorrow I’ll have some info on how you can send messages to the kids in Japan. Cha Cha Pizza 1. ย Draw up a big pizza on the board. 2. Cut the pizza…
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On Friday afternoon I was in the gym. Then, as what usually happens, automated earthquake alerts came up on all the TVs. This is quite normal and there were three other big earthquakes before last Friday and nobody was hurt. This time the magnitude, we don’t useย Richterย scale over here, came up as 8.4 so the…
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Thank you to everyone who wrote in asking where I was in the Japan earthquake. Luckily I was on the other side of the country and both myself and the Genki English staff are all OK. Quite a few of our regular readers are in the affected area though so I hope you are all…
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Here’s Mido Farid’s game of the week, this is another cool one for younger kids at kindergarten, practicing “Who’s your favourite” or for older kids at a party or event! Broom catch 1. Have students stand in a circle. 2. Go around theย circleย and have everyone say their name (tellย students to try remember the names.) 3….
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Christopher wrote in this great little idea to go with the What do you want to be ? theme: I find adding a couple of bonus occupations is good as a follow-up. I want to be a gorilla is a good way to perk up 6th grader classes in the 3rd semester! Gorilla pictures can…
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