Author Archives: Richard Graham

New Mini Cards + Your Requests

Whilst I was visiting Gaz’ town the other week he showed me lots of new minicards he’d made, including mini versions of the picture books and these mini cards for “Do you have any brothers and sisters?” They’re great for games, for example do the song then even something simple like… 1. Everyone asks one…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/new-mini-cards-your-requests/

Your Top 3 Lessons

I originally wrote this message on Monday, but now we have comments enabled I figured it would be great to hear your top 3 most fun lessons as well.Β  They don’t just have to be Genki English, feel free to link to other materials if you like! To start things off, here are my top…

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Anyone can learn a language?

Yesterday the Guardian in the UK had an article about my favourite of favourite language teachers the late Michel Thomas: My message “anybody can learn”. The interesting think about this article was that it is about taking Michel Thomas’ ideas and methods and using them in normal schools instead of just private learners. I think…

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Please comment! + New design

Hello, I’ve just upgraded the blog design, what do you think? And I’ve also enabled comments, so you’ll be able to give feedback and make requests right here on the blog.Β  You don’t need to log in to comment, so please have a try! be genki, Richard

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/please-comment-new-design/

France to offer free English lessons

There’s an article on the BBC today about the French Education Minister’s decision to offer free English lessons to all students in the school holidays. The BBC says … Xavier Darcos announced the plans on Monday, insisting that speaking fluent English was the key to success. Xavier Darcos said it was a “handicap” to speak…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/france-to-offer-free-english-lessons/

Politics & English

Today I was going to introduce the YouTube video by the new (well, 2 weeks ago) Education Minister in Japan. For ten years the government has been saying “primary school English will be compulsory very soon” but every time we get a new Minister they cancel it. For example in 2007 it was supposed to…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/politics-english/