Author Archives: Richard Graham

Man with no feet

You’ve really got to admire the Indian teachers. Today was spent going through the feedback on the GE materials and they’d really thought about it and really gone into a lot of detail. The good points the teachers and administrators were surprised by were: 1) The kids are really enjoying it. 2) The parents and…

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Thursday Evening In India

With all the things you see on TV some people really don’t like other people. But when you actually party, eat and smile with them we are really all the same. Just take the guys at the end of this video, they look pretty scary, but all they were wanting was check their make up…

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Back in India

The Indian presentations I did in May were a huge success. But however big or motivating a single week of workshops can be, the teachers face new challenges and come up with new ways to use the materials in the classroom. So this week I’m back in India, mainly as a fact finding mission to…

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1 Billion Students Use Genki English

I was out drinking with Steve Nishida (and here) the other week and I happened to mention my new goal for the next two years:, Have one billion students learning with Genki English. Yeah, that’s billion, not million!Β  The thing is that he never batted an eyelid. He knows the projects I’ve been involved in…

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Halloween Video & Crosswords

Back to the original Happy Halloween song, I just realised I’d never uploaded the teaching guide video. So here you go! Videos for 30 of the other songs are on the Teaching Guide DVD. English Version Japanese Version I thought you might also like a Crossword, Word Jumble & Word Search as a nice Halloween…

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ETJ Picture Cards & Speeches

As I’m flying out of Kansai airport this week, on Sunday I popped along to the ETJ (English Teachers in Japan) Osaka meeting. Eric Kane did an excellent workshop and if you’re in the kansai area on November 16th I’d highly recommend you to pop along to their big yearly “Expo“. Eric went through his…

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