Author Archives: Richard Graham

A Couple of Games

I just put a shout out over on the forum for some “zero preparation” games for our Chinese schools.Β Β  Within a few minutes I had some fantastic responses!Β  Here’s the full list, and here are a few examples: For theΒ  How many? theme: Mind reading game 1. Teacher makes a number with their fingers behind…

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How to make an ESL curriculum

After workshops next door to the Google and Microsoft offices in the city centre this week, today I was back into our slum area schools (although I don’t like calling them that because on a day like today they are as beautiful as anywhere else and of course they are the main reason I am…

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Genki Chinese Games

I’ve just uploaded 3 new Learn Chinese games for you: I’ve basically done them out of desperation at not finding any fun materials to learn Chinese myself! Even the hallowed Michel Thomas course has been sending me to sleep with the advanced Mandarin.Β  Update: I just figured out that because I bought the ebook version…

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Phonics Crash Course

UPDATE: Β Since I wrote this post (and partly because of it) Genki Phonics has now become a full, complete Phonics Course to fulfill all the needs I talk about here! —————————————————————————————————- Today I had an intro workshop for a chain with 600 branches and now quite a few genkified teachers. Afterwards we were chatting and…

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CD9 Software Ready to Test!

UPDATE:Β  Thank you very much to everyone who helped test the software!Β  The Beta Test is now closed, but the CD9 Software is now available for everyone to purchase. ——————————————————————————– If you’d like to help me beta test the full CD9 software then it’s ready to go! Here’s the deal…. What you get: * You…

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Kindergarten Classes

Today I had a demo workshop for a company who put teachers into kindergartens in Beijing. It was a bit of an experiment to see how the teachers react to Genki English before hopefully introducing the Teachers’ Packs (and maybe even workshops) into the schools. We started off with 21 teachers (as shown here), but…

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