June has just about finished everywhere in the world, so I just picked June’s winner of the comment competition.  And the winner is …  Jann from Mexico! Jann, you win a Genki English CD or CD Download of your choice (or Genki Relax, Hip Hop or Genki Japan packs) The July competition is now open…

Mido Farid has just sent in this great Summer game! 1. Do your normal lesson. 2. Draw two huge ice cream cones on the board.  One for the kids.  One for the teacher. 3. Put all the picture cards from today’s theme on the board. 4. Now circle several of the picture cards. 5. Ask today’s…

Doing a presentation to class might seem obvious to you or me, but can be a huge game changer in countries that usually associate English with rote learning or grammar study.  It blew our teachers away last week to see that their kids could actually create something new in Genki English class.  And many countries…

Hi Guys. Last week’s training went really well. It’s was so good in fact that I’ve been asked to stay back another 8 days to do the training for the New Delhi government school teachers this week! This is a pretty huge project with intervention and control groups, lots of schools and a ton of…

Genki English reader Lines has just sent in this variation on the How are you? Monster or Mr Wolf games,  but this time for the present continuous i.e. I’m …. ing 1. Make a circle. 2. One child is a wild animal( they choose one, say Mr Tiger.) 3. He/she is in the centre. 4….