Author Archives: Richard Graham

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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ASL in ESL *The Amazing Discovery!*

Here’s something I’m very excited about! As many of you know I’m always on the look out for the next “magic bullet”, the next technique or method that will make as much a difference to our teaching as the songs and games already have. Well, I think we may have found it…. The uber talented…

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Keisen University Part 2

Part one is here: Then after a break it was showing how we teach these exact same “success secrets” to kids using Genki English. Until now they’d been picking up things like Left & Right and How are you? but not understanding the underlying confidence parts of the programme. So I started off with the…

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