It’s exactly 10 years ago today that I finished my teaching job and started doing Genki English (very) full time. Here’s how the 10 years have gone by … 1999 Started the Genki English website (here’s the earliest version) as I was doing teacher training workshops and just had so many handouts. Was still teaching elementary…

If you’ve been asked to train a group of teachers this holiday, then here is the structure I use. You’ll find that every step is important, to get the teachers from “but in my school ….” to “Oh yeah, let’s do this!” If your teachers don’t speak really fluent English (i.e. most groups) I’d also recommend…

Stories, skits & plays can be a great way to link themes together and use English in different ways e.g. do a cooking lesson to ask “What are you doing?” or to differentiate “How much?” and “How many?” Gumby, Margit, Carol, Cathy & Rosebud have teamed up to bring a new section to the VIP…

I need some pirate theme words. Any ideas?

Here’s a very nice email from Margit, who organised a Genki English workshop in her town last year and liked it so much she’s doing another one this year!  Have a look here to see the sort of thing we do! Many GE readers wrote in the comments that they would like to join a…