OK I promise this is my absolute last Halloween post for the year… What would your kids think if you gave them all a fully grown big proper pumpkin to carve and take home next year? I bet they’d be impressed. And the thing is you can actually do it for (nearly!) free. How? Grow…
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Then it was time for home. I’ve only been here two days, but we’ve done so much it feels like I’ve been here for ages. Everyone was so, so friendly asking so many questions and it’s just been such a positive experience. So we stocked up in a Cambodian “drive through” i.e. shouting out from…
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One of the things I’m working on for you for next week is a series of “Imagination Worksheets.” You just give them to the kids, translate the instruction if needed and let their imaginations go wild. As one worksheet is to draw a face on a jack o’lantern I figured it’d be best to upload…
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This school is also trying out the $100 laptop “buy one get one free” scheme where people in the US buy one machine and another is donated to places like here in Cambodia. Yesterday I had a look at and to be honest I wasn’t too impressed. “Laptop” probably isn’t the best way to describe…
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Over on the members forum we’re beta testing a new Pronouns/Be Verb song which also links in with yesterday’s “Be Verb Game” I’ve been working on a few ideas for minicards to represent the pronouns and I think this is the best way to do it, with “I am”, “She is” etc. on the cards…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/pronouns-minicards/
School starts at 7 AM here. Kids start arriving at 6. School finished at 5PM. One advantage of not having Playstations at home I guess. Showers were cool, one teacher has to pump the water using a “stairmaster” like machine whilst the other teacher gets a shower! They called it “natural temperature” water. I called…
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