Author Archives: Richard Graham

Summer Clothes Song: Baby Monkey it’s Summer!

UPDATE: Β This song is now released and you can find it on Genki English vol. 11!Β  ————————— 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…

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Family Value Homepacks!

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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Autism & Genki English

I get a lot of emails from teachers using Genki English with Special Needs students. Here’s one I thought I’d share with you from Teresa: ————————————————— Richard-sorry it has taken me a little while. Here is the way I use Genki English in my classroom. I am not trying to suggest to you how to…

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Italian Terrorist

With a big thanks to Mark, I had a few meetings today with producers and agents about upcoming Genki English TV projects.Β  They could be very exciting, so keep tuned in! I also got invited to audition for the lead role in a new TV series as an Italian terrorist. At first I thought it…

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ABC Song Dance Video

This week the Phonics ABC Song has just hit 1,000,000 views on Youtube which is quite cool. I’ve also found this really great video that Nigel in Fukuoka (I’m guessing it’s you Nigel!) made of his kindergarten kids doing his hip hop dance to the song! With the comment: Thanks to Richard of Genki English…

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“Success Education” @ Tokyo Maruzen

Photo by chez-sugi Update: Β Thanks to everyone who came to the workshop! Β To see where I’ll be next, click here. Today we had a CD9 Launch Party and CD signing at the huge Maruzen bookstore in Tokyo – right between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace! I used to do these presentationsΒ  slap bang in…

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