Author Archives: Richard Graham

Quick Draw!: Update with Video

Here’s yet another really cool game from Mido Farid! Β This time it’s a really simple vocab review game. Divide the class into two groups. Ask the first student from each group to come to the middle of the class Ask them to stand back to back Then ask the two student to close their eyes….

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Menu Games: Breakfast & Drinks

I just tweeted about a new Breakfast Menu Game to go with theΒ “What would you like for breakfast?” lesson It’s dead easy to use: 1. Print out the menu below (VIP members) or put the pdf on the projector 2. Everyone shouts out “What would you like for breakfast?” 3. One person makes an order…

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Uno Style Game in Video – great for ESL!

Margit has been using the Genki English “One Left” Uno Style game to great effect in her classes. Β Check out this video: Kids love this Uno game adapted to different topics out of the Genki English curriculum. It’s played like “Uno “(“one left” “last card”). I guess each family (group) has slightly different rules to…

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Genki English on a USB Stick! – Get it free?

(See below to see how you can get this set for free!) We’ve just launched a new “USB” version of the Japan Superpack. Β i.e. super easy to carry around! It’s exactly the same as the normal Superpack ( it’s theΒ Teachers Set plus 2 more DVDs in Japanese and a Genki English card game) but instead…

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Numbers Games in Tokyo

To lead into the numbers version of Do you have any pets? we first had to practice some numbers. Β Here are a couple of really fun games to go with the numbers song, one probably better than the other, which do you think? Thumb Sumo / Thumb War Timebomb / Unlucky 13 Game

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Card Games & Class Control in Tokyo

(There are lots of videos in today’s post, so if you are on email then click here to see them!) Today we had a workshop in Shinjuku Tokyo right outside the Ministry of Defence! One of the requests for was for some card games using the Mini Cards. Now to be honest I don’t really…

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