I don’t know if you watch the BBC’s “Dragon’s Den” program, where small businesses get investment for original business ideas, but one of the companies featured during the Summer was Magic Whiteboards. They are funky “stick anywhere” sheets of portable white board paper. They’re having a competition at the moment on novel uses of the…
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It was back to more training sessions (same teachers) this morning. And they did really well. The Genki English curriculum you have is purposefully non-linear so you can change the lessons to your students needs. But in India and China I’ve given them sets of 20 lessons to do in a set order. The nice…
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EDIT: The Youtube video below works now! It’s your Sunday day off in China, so what do you do? You go to the Great Wall! I always thought it would be way out in the middle of nowhere, but it’s right next to Beijing. You just pop on the highway for less than an hour…
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Yes it’s Saturday, and yes we have teacher training and yes the kids are in school as well. Working hard seems to be second nature here. Genki English This morning was supposed to be simply getting the teachers to teach another Genki English lesson each. But word seemed to have got out because we had…
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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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