As we have very, very tight budgets in the India schools, the traditional “Doctor Doctor” game (e.g. here’s the Funky Mummy version) can’t be used as we need to make the games use as few materials as possible and if possible zero materials. So here’s the Simply Doctor Doctor Game: 1.One child comes to the…
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In India we’ve also put small computer rooms in all the schools. There is a very famous ICT professor in charge, but we went in today and it was chaos. With no teachers allowed to supervise, the kids were watching Tom & Jerry or playing GT Rally, some computers had the fronts bashed in (they…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/bad-computers-lots-of-books/
Here are the latest versions of the Trick or Treat song pictures, all done up as A4 pdfs! The black background looks best, but I’ve also done a white background version for when you have an ink budget to think about. Changes can still be made if necessary so please leave comments and I hope…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/a4-trick-or-treat-cards/
Tons of stuff going on today and meetings which I’d love to blog about but can’t! So here’s a video of an Indian breakfast for you.
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/indian-breakfast-dosa/
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…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/man-with-no-feet/
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…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/thursday-evening-in-india/
