Christine wrote in asking what to do for a 90 minute lesson.  Here’s my reply! Hi Christine, 90 minutes is a long time! Rather than doing 2 themes back to back, I’d do two halves on the same theme. 1. For the first 45 minutes just do the normal lesson plan. 2. Then give the…

We all want to hear about you! Yes, you! Not about me. Everyone wants to listen to how you teach, the problems you have, how you solved them and the days that make you go “Yeah, I loved that lesson!”. And how would you like to get paid for it? Well, here’s your chance! I’m…

Motivating High School students can sometimes be an uphill task.  Movies, pop music & video games can all be great suggestions, but usually there is way too much English.  What we want is something that’s much simpler, shorter and quick. And these days that would be ….. Twitter! I’ve never seen a good reason to…

This is why we stand up to teachers, administrators or even parents who are stuck in the old way of teaching, and not learning. This is  the reason Genki English exists (and the reason I make the curriculum non-linear!) and why we all need to keep working more to get the word out there! Thanks…

Wow, is this the first new song of this year? This time it’s a phonics song to practice the short “o” sound. I’m loving it, plus it’s got robots in it! (Always popular with the boys!) How to teach: 1. Put the kids in a circle (an “o” shape!) 2. Everyone does a robot dance…

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?”,…