In the morning I had the fantastic kids show, then the teachers’ workshop… Rude beyond belief Over lunch things didn’t sound promising though. First of all a lecturer from one of the universities I’m presenting at in Summer had asked the school if she could attend. They agreed. I also needed to talk to her…
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Today was a visit to Yumiko‘s school in the Okayama countryside. I gave them the discount rate and the PTA paid my expenses so the plan was a kids “Motivation Training” show in the morning and then a Teachers Workshop in the afternoon. Here’s how good Yumiko’s kids are! I often get emails from people…
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Had a great workshop and superpack signing in the Okayama Maruzen today. Thank you to everyone who came and of course everyone who bought Superpacks! Many of you were with me in turning down the Italain Terrorist role last week, but I really do need to find a way to get the word out more…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/okayama-maruzen-genki-teleshopping/
Gaz has been causing quite a storm over on the members’ forum with his additions to the “strange foods” cards. You use them with the Do you like …? theme to elicit the “No, I don’t!!!!!” response in the most dramatic fashion. Kids love them! So today we have A4 cards and mini cards including…
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UPDATE: This song is now released and you can find it on Genki English vol. 11! ————————— To follow on from the raving success of Baby Monkey’s Winter Clothes, I guess there just had to be a Summer Clothes song as well! I’m still working on a combined set of picture cards (with much better…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/summer-clothes-song-baby-monkey-its-summer/
In the UK my 18 month old niece is addicted to Baby Monkey and is apparently impressing all the parents in her playgroup so much that they’ve been asking to buy the Genki English CDs as well! So I’ve just launched the new Family Value Homepacks. Unlike the teacher’s set the Family Value Homepacks don’t…
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