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…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/lets-build-a-snowman-esl-body-parts-song-in-video/
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”…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/esl-pronouns-song-in-video/
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…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/soldiers-ninjas-esl-game-video/
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/
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…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/eigo-note-or-even-english-to-be-abolished-gov-wants-you-to-choose/
Some of the very genki teachers from this weekend’s workshop! A foggy Christmassy morning, so we started off with – 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/
