Author Archives: Richard Graham

What high school kids want

Here’s another “Try it yourself” video to try learning another language in the genki way. It’s the Where are you from? song but in Japanese. For High School Students? The nice thing about YouTube is that we can see the students’ comments directly. If you don’t speak your students’ own language fluently, it can often…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/what-high-school-kids-want/

Can you speak…? Song

“Can you speak English/French/Chinese etc.” is an important phrase, especially when you get stuck. So over on the members’ beta test forum I’ve just put up the new “Do you speak English?” Song. I wrote it in France last year, and just finished the recording this afternoon and I think it sounds pretty good! What…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/ca-you-speak-song/

Eigo Note Workshops

I’ve had quite a few people writing in to say they’ve been asked to do a winter workshop for the teachers in their school this week.Β  Most people have been saying that normally they’d do Genki English (of course!) but the school has requested they do the new Eigo Note textbook and do I have…

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Happy New Year Song!

I should have recorded this song over Christmas, it’s been so difficult to get a happy sounding recording with everyone being so depressed now all the festivities are over! So to make sure that doesn’t happen in your lessons, and to get everyone really happy right from the start, here’s the brand new Genki English…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/happy-new-year-song/

Printable Calendars

    UPDATE: Β 2014 versions are here!   By popular request the members’ club calendars are back with a new 2009 version – the year of the cow! I was planning to jazz them up a bit this year, but I’m a little behind on things at the moment (I’m trying to get the new…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/2009-printable-calendar/

Review of the Year 2008

This certainly has been an exciting 12 months. In 2007 I was getting a little frustrated with government school bureaucracy and “boring is fine” status quo. But this year was totally different, I added more countries to the list, lived in Italy & produced a lot of new materials. The best thing for me has…

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