I’ve done workshops in rural Thailand before, but this was my first time in Cambodia. It’s an hour and a half to the village where the schools are but in a truck over rough and ready roads! We were covered in red dust before we arrived. We also stopped off for some breakfast and coconut…
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I finished everything at 9PM last night, then hopped on the midnight plane from India, via Bangkok to arrive at 9 AM in Cambodia! Siem Reap airport is very impressive in the glorious sunshine. Daniela from Pepy, who has organised this week’s workshops, picked me up in a Khmer tuk-tuk. (That’s the driver, not Daniela)…
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It’s newsletter day today and one of the things I wrote about is the new YouTube video of the Trick or Treat song. It is very scary and I hope you enjoy it! If you have any friends at home who like Halloween then please tell them about the video, it’s amazing how many teachers…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/halloween-video-newsletter/
One of the things that kept coming up last week was an objection to the games because the classrooms were so packed. But as you saw in the videos for most of the schools it was a bit of an excuse. However today we had so many kids packed in one tiny room! Just looking…
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Hello, I’m doing workshops in rural Cambodia at the moment. It’s raining so we don’t have much solar power for the internet. I’ll be writing everything up soon with photos and videos just as soon as I get back to civilisation! Be genki, Richard P.S. the office is open as usual to send out CD…
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Talk about chalk and cheese, this morning’s school was 100% different from yesterday. It’s actually the school whose teachers I spoke to on Friday and was very impressed by. However they weren’t putting anything into practice. They’d been doing the songs, and the kids liked them, but they hadn’t been teaching the meaning of the…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/rote-learning-is-appalling/
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