Update: 2014 version is here Always a welcome gift, here’s the 2010 Genki English Calendar to bring a rainbow of colours to your classroom. Of course the 2009 one is still online just in case you need it! Plus there are more luxury Christmas worksheets with Christmas Colours Snakes & Ladders, black and white Snowman mini cards and Christmas Colours…

Here’s the latest video from Austria, for CD10’s “Let’s build a snowman” Just like the Gingerbread House song the kids pretend to build a snowman whilst singing the chorus.  Then they get into pairs to put the parts on each other! The English is a little more advanced than the other Genki English themes, but…

This has to be one of my favourite themes, it is so easy to do and is so, so useful: CD9‘s “I, you, he, she, we” pronouns song Check out the gestures in the video below: Doing the gestures in the video means you can teach it in just a few minutes, then try the “Dinosaur Danger”…

Flossy asked for new Warm Up / Review Games. The Lines Quiz is always my favourite, but as Flossy said, after doing it every lesson for over a year it is a bit much! So my number 2 review game is Soldiers & Ninjas! 1. Select 9 students to become the soldiers. They stand in rows…

Whilst I’m over in Europe, all the excitment is going over in Japan. As has happened every time before, the new government has decided to upturn what the last lot did, so apparently they are looking to abolish the English Education reforms. The good news is that this looks like the scrapping of the horrendous Eigo…