As you may have seen in this morning’s newsletter there is finally, after 2 years, a song for the Winter Clothes theme. It’s big, it’s operatic and your kids are going to love it! Here’s some of the feedback from the beta test forum: “Just when we think we’ve got it all you bring out…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/winter-clothes-2009/
I don’t usually like email chain letters. They’re often untrue and just clog up busy email boxes. But this one’s a little different, because I think it has a great idea for a class project! If you try it out, be sure to let us know how you got on, it will amazing if this…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/too-busy-for-a-friend/
For the past ten years I’ve been preaching that the very first thing you should teach (and done in the kids’ native language) is “dekiru dekiru dekiru” – You can do it! I’ve been ridiculed and criticised for it. “We should be teaching grammar and vocab, not this nonsense”, “I’m not wasting time on that…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/you-can-do-it/
I originally wrote the What do you do? occupations song in the present tense. The idea being because from a careers education point of view saying “I am …” is much stronger than “I want to be a …” Unfortunately not everyone has caught up with that idea and “What do you want to be?”…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/want-to-be-a-rockstar-new-jobs-song/
In response to yesterday’s “Teaching I/You/Him/Her” post, David wrote “there are just not that many foreign celebrities that all of the children know!” I too was surprised at this when I first started teaching abroad. In Japan it’s mostly comedians or Japanese singers, in India it’s cricket and Bollywood stars who are all the rage….
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/whos-hot-right-now/
Over on the member’s forum I’ve just uploaded a demo of a “Look at me” song for practising me/you/her/him. These can be a little confusing for the kids, especially if they are said the same as I/you/he/she in the kids’ native language. The (genius as always!) teachers on the forum have come up with a…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/teaching-meyouherhim/
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