Author Archives: Richard Graham

Beijing British Council & Solving World Poverty(!)

This morning I popped in to see the British Council in Beijing. As usual their offices were beautifully designed, if I was a student I’d want to study in the UK after visiting them! I’ve done workshops for the BC before (including a keynote speech), there’s actually a British Council branded version of the Teacher’s…

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Genki Business English

It seems that every day this and last week I’ve been meeting with school chains asking about putting Genki English in their classes. Judging by how classes are taught here (holding up flashcards, getting bored, falling asleep!) and how different Genki English is, I think it could be really huge here. Most of the places…

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Get a free digital whiteboard + training!

The government in Japan have just decided to give a brand new digital whiteboard (although they call them 電子黒板 electronic blackboards) to every elementary and junior high school for free. Well, with our tax money anyway! There’s a fair chance that when they arrive they’ll just get put in store cupboards and never used.Β  So tell…

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New Lesson Plans Book

The latest version of the Genki English Manual is out! i.e. the big printable book of lesson plans for each theme. If you’re wanting help to get your head around all the Genki English themes then it will certainly help to print it out and have a look through. I was hoping to spend a…

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Genki Homework

One of the things I’m looking at for our private schools for the poor projects is homework. Parents want it and it’s good for them to see what the kids are doing. But printing is way too expensive. Computers are non-existent in homes (as is electricity a lot of the time) The kids having theΒ …

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Beijing Genki Marathon

This part two of my Beijing workshops. See yesterday for part 1! High Level Phonics This afternoon was going through the much more advanced parts of the phonics course. They start off with individual sounds, then move on to alternative ways of writing them e.g. ai, ay a…e etc. Then it moves onto some of…

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