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….
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/genki-in-beijing/
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/
Just a quick word to let you know I’ll be in Beijing next week (although I’m actually in France at the moment.) My schedule’s pretty tight, but if anyone would like to meet up for a chat and a beer then it might be possible. Let me know. Be genki, Richard
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/beijing-next-week/
The other week I was at a conference and the most popular workshop, by far, was the one on discipline. Although I get lots of requests for discipline ideas at workshops in Germany and elsewhere, I never realised quite how popular a subject it is. The presenter the other week was taking a few ideas…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/discipline-2-fred-jones/
