Here’s Mido Farid’s game of the week – this is a lot of fun! This time we’re using it for Days of the Week but it works for any theme. (If you’re on email and can’t see the video, click here) You need two plastic cups 1. Write or put up picture cards of two…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/balance-it/
If you don’t have time to do a full lesson plan on phonics each week then here’s a quick “5 minute phonics” session that you can do at the end of a normal Genki English lesson. 1. Ask the kids what the words are (they must have previously studied these) 2. Ask them to think…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/5-minute-phonics-plan/
Here’s Mido Faird’s game for this week. It’s great for some simple math or even for months of the year – if you ever got November or December you’d know they were cheating! 🙂 (If you’re on email and can’t see the video, click here!) 1- Divide the class into teams, call up the the…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/add-em-numbers-or-months-game/
One thing I’m trying to get teachers to do more is to make the initial vocab introduction a bit more fun. “Repeat after me” with a list of vocab is really boring! But doing a story or getting the kids’ opinions can make all the difference in making them lean forward and be interested or…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/robots-cakes-cops-robbers-getting-kids-attention-in-class/
Hol Smale has just sent in this very cool game, Castle Attack! This game is without exception the most popular game I play, and I`ve played it all the way down to 3rd grade and all the way up to 9th grade (and higher, if I taught higher). 1. Divide the room into small groups. Try…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/castle-attack/
Doing a 3 day certified training course in Okinawa this weekend. Teachers were good today, pretty much the standard first day “deer in the headlights” shock as they try teaching themselves (as opposed to just sitting in lectures!) One group did come up with using the What time is it? 2 gestures with the…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/alternative-what-time-is-it-gestures/
