Author Archives: Richard Graham

English Concert for Very Young Kids (from Argentina!)

Want to show parents how good your students are getting? How about an English concert! Val has been at it again making a fantastic video of her students doing an English concert for the parents – Genki English style of course! The songs are Baby Monkey’s Winter Clothes, Β Eat, Drink Dance (Love how they do…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/english-concert-for-very-young-kids-from-argentina/

Creative Questions from Tokyo Teachers

Today we had a private full day workshop for a new set of schools in Tokyo. The cool thing was that the participants were all creative professionals (we had a professional singer, dancer, orchestral percussionist and 2 movie producers!) who are going to be using their talents alongside theΒ Genki English curriculum for premium style English…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/creative-questions-from-tokyo-teachers/

Weather Game

Kristin has just sent in a nice game to go with the weather song. You just play the How are you? Monster game, but instead the kids ask “What’s the weather like?” (or “How’s the weather?) and they run back when the answer is “It’s rainy!” Β Very simple, but lots of fun. Any other phrases…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/weather-game-2/

Hot Potatoes from Russia

Tatiana has just sent in this great game from Russia: I’d like to share with you and other teachers one game for children. In Russia we call it “Hot Potato” and usually play in Russian. However when I started teaching English, I tried to play it in English- and my students love it. I’m sure…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/hot-potatoes-from-russia/

It’s snowing in Japan…

Well at least it was when I arrived last week … But that’s nothing compared to the Snowman I made in England the week before….

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/its-snowing-in-japan/