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….

Gaz has just sent in this amazing World Cup Card Game. The rules are similar to “Top Trumps” or the Genki English Card Game (check out the animation instructions or the countries version too!) and it features all the 2010 World Cup countries. Of course you can change the rules however you like, but statements you could use with…