Regular readers will know that day 2 is always the hardest in any training. Day 1 is always “Wow, this is amazing”. Day 2 is “Wooo, we’ll never be able to do this”. Luckily day 3 is usually “Wow, we can do this!”. This morning started off well enough with going through the phonics lesson…
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I have to be a little careful how I blog about this trip for various reasons. Let’s just say that we’re not working with the rich posh schools nor the government schools. The project here is to help children who really are poor get an excellent education, which can sometimes by a complicated business! Anyway…
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I’m very tired as I write this, but I’m now in Beijing! Tomorrow is the start of a week of workshops, but today was arriving after a long flight and meetings for most of the day. It’s great again to be working with such a dedicated team. Beijing is very different to what I thought….
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Hopefully I should be flying back across Russia to China at the moment. I’ve just spent a very nice few days in France. Genki French should hopefully be ready before the New Year. Even though I was at Uni in Grenoble I didn’t realise just how close France and England are. Here’s the White Cliffs…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/eating-lapin-in-france/
One of the simplest projects to do is with the “What’s the weather like?” theme. It’s really simple: 1) Everyday one (upper year) child has to take a picture of the weather outside. 2) They email this to the partner school along with a quick sentence e.g “Today it’s rainy”. (Either look on the Genki…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/whats-the-weather-like-in/
In March I wrote about the Meddybemps cut-out village which is great for lessons involving directions. e.g. Left & Right, Where are you going? or even the Eigo Note. Over on the forum there is a thread about cultural lessons and directions, so today I just checked on the Meddybemps site and they have a…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/cut-out-christmas-markets/
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