Author Archives: Richard Graham

ESL Pronouns Song in Video

This has to be one of my favourite themes, it is so easy to do and is so, so useful:Β CD9‘sΒ “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”…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/esl-pronouns-song-in-video/

Soldiers & Ninjas ESL Review Game in Video

Flossy asked for new Warm Up / Review Games. TheΒ 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…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/soldiers-ninjas-esl-game-video/

From Austria: Gingerbread House Christmas Play

Now I’m back in the land of unlimited internet I can show you a clip of where we had this weekend’s workshop. By the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, central Beijing & Bangkok, Arctic Sweden and now very Christmassy Austria… All very inspirational, especially as Beethoven used to spend his Summers just round the corner! So…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/from-austria-gingerbread-house-christmas-play/

Eigo Note, or even English, to be abolished? Gov. wants you to choose!

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 horrendousΒ Eigo…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/eigo-note-or-even-english-to-be-abolished-gov-wants-you-to-choose/

Genki in Austria Day 2

Some of the very genki teachers from this weekend’s workshop! A foggy Christmassy morning, so we started off with –Β When, when, when? – I am , you are pronouns song + dinosaur game – which only sort of worked because I was the only guy in the room! But it shows how just a handful…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/genki-in-austria-day-2/

Genki in Austria

Today was my only teaching workshop in Europe this year and we had people fly in from all over the continent, from Spain, Germany, Lithuania and of course Austria! Amongst all the general rules and positivity behind Genki English we did… –Β Genki Disco Warm Up, –Β String Game for introductions – My self intro about the…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/genki-in-austria/