There was a request over on the members group for the template to make your own 8 sided die or dice. Here it is! The pre-designed dice (with graphics already in) VIPs can find on many of the songs pages e.g. click through from to the song you want from this page. They’re great for adding…

Welcome to the new school year!  At this time of year I get a lot of teachers asking about ideas for their first lessons.  Here are the three articles I usually recommend if you’re brand new to teaching: First lesson of the year, if you speak the lingo First Lesson when you don’t speak the…

Flossy in Austria has sent in this great numbers video – complete with dinosaurs! The original version of the song is in the Download Pack. I want to incorporate more dinosaurs into Genki English, the kids love them!  But what new language do you think would work best with dinosaurs as characters?

Last week I was looking for a great game to use with CD9‘s “Excuse me, are you…?” It’s a really cool theme and a perfect follow up to the free “How are you?” theme.  But I didn’t have the game to get the kids speaking the English fluently. Gaz suggested the Genki English version of…

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, so the teachers wanted to see how GE really works with real kids. We had about 60 from every age from 6 weeks to 6th grade! (We set the minimum limit as 1st grade, but of course parents always lie to try and get their little…

UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who came to these workshops – you were fantastic! To see where I’ll be next, check out the schedule page! ——————————————————————- I’m up in Tokyo for the next few days (give me a shout if you’d like to catch up for a coffee or beer!) and I’ve just got dates…