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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I’m working on a new clothes theme (separate from the Winter Clothes one) and was wanting your input as to a) Which clothes to include (remember a max of 8 for one lesson!) b) What question to use with the clothes. I’ve got a few ideas and we’ve been talking about more on the forum,…
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One of the specific questions today was how to teach grammar. I got this a lot in India as well. The thing with Genki English is that you don’t explicitly teach grammar. The kids learn it from context. This is a much better way than the traditional “identify the nouns in this sentence” approach which…
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As we were late it was straight into a 1.5 hour intro workshop. The teachers were happy and smily and the building, built by Pepy, was perfect. We even had power from the solar cells on the roof, again another prize from Pepy. The big challenge though was with the teachers’ attitude. The first thing…
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Gaz has just sent in “stickers” for the CD7 songs to go with the Genki English Passport. They look great and along with the passport will be a great motivator. Thanks Gaz, anybody want ones for CD8? UPDATE: Gaz has also sent in a load of stickers for the various Halloween themes, enjoy! TSteastickers.pdf batstickerswritten.pdf…
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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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