Author Archives: Richard Graham

Are your kids this good yet?

Margit has just sent in this video of her kids pretty fluently making sentences like “I don’t have to eat more vegetables but I can eat more vegetables.” I must say it sounds very impressive. Margit says the breakthrough with their English has been using the High School Hip Hop materials even with her younger…

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Kiss Sara

After the rather sad post last Friday, Β here is Mido Farid’s perfect follow on game of the week. I have a feeling it’s going to be hugely popular with the ladies out there and I’m sure would also be a huge hit in High School. By the way Sara is Mido’s daughter…. 1. Divide the…

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Win two weeks in Cambridge – hurry!

        UPDATE: This competition has now closed, hopefully there will be another in the future! Elizabeth just wrote in to mention that the University of Cambridge is running a competition for teachers. The prize is an all expenses paid teacher training trip to Cambridge for two weeks! Full details of how to…

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New Zealand Earthquake

I’m sure most of you have seen and heard about the New Zealand earthquake earlier this week. I’m sure many of you also know I’ve spent a lot of time over there this past yearΒ filmingΒ at schools and helping students to experience studying English in New Zealand. When news first broke of the Christchurch earthquake our…

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What’s your favourite …? in video

We had a request the other day to see the What’s your favourite ? song in video. Here’s how to introduce theΒ language – in a fun way of course…. And then the song …. This is a really popular song, especially with older kids, but as it doesn’t have any “repeat after me” bits then…

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Goddess of English

I often get asked “Why Genki English in India? Surely everyone there already speaks English?” Well, no, not the poorest. Β  Have a look at this BBC news article and see the passion that’s there!

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