As you go through the Genki English curriculum, linking together sentences is one thing to always keep in mind. For example there is the and….but song or the pink fish game. One idea from Yoko last week for older students was using “found” … 1. Give each kid a piece of paper with either “Who?”,…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/sentence-making/
Here’s another game from the ACET meeting last week, this time from Riki! 1. Get some adjective cards. 2. Get some animal cards. 3. Get the kids in groups of three. 4. Pick one adjective and one animal card and tell the first three kids to make this animal, together, using their bodies! e.g a…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/hito-doubutsu-game/
Most kids these days have no idea what they want to do. Motivation and careers advice is severely lacking. So this is one technique from my motivation courses for universities that I use to get students really seeing their future – in just ten minutes! Even if you’re an adult, take the ten minutes to do the exercise, it…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/how-to-get-your-ideal-lifestyle-what-do-you-want-to-be/
Interested in doing a CELTA or TEFL course? Over on the VIP members forum we’ve got Tonester and Sara writing a fantastic series of posts as they go through their CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) & TEFL ( Teaching English as a Foreign Language) studies. If you’ve ever considered the courses then…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/celta-tefl-more/
The Boston Globe has just done a long piece on one of the schools I’ve been working with in India, and how it could be a model to solve the world’s education crisis! Class Difference – Boston Globe
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/genki-in-the-boston-globe/
Many of the games on the Genki English Games page can be used to teach reading. You simply change the picture cards used to be written words. (Of course a little phonics beforehand always helps!) Here’s another game to teach reading that Yoko introduced at the ACET meeting on Sunday: Who, what or where? Reading…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/games-to-teach-reading/
Earn More From Your Passion For Teaching English!
