If you’re in Okinawa, I’d recommend the Naha West Inn, brand new apartment/hotel for 4,500 yen a night! Also my mate Cesar’s Mexican restaurant, hopefully you’ll catch me there next time. Today I caught the plane back to Japan to Matsuyama where a Genki English trainer from Hong Kong was flying in to join this…
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Although I recommend charades (or “gesture game”) for What are you doing? or What do you want to do? (members bonus theme) I’ve never found a way of doing it that I was totally happy with. In one of the workshops this week I think I might have found it: 1. Put the kids in…
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After catching up on a bit of work, and before dinner with the teachers from this week, I got picked up in an open top car for a nice drive round the beautiful Pacific Island of Okinawa. It’s so nice to finally have a day off here, as usually I just fly straight in and…
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To be honest over the last few months I’ve seen CD8 as a bit of a mismatch of themes to fill holes in the curriculum or to bring about themes that haven’t worked out until now. But today I played the songs for the teachers and they loved it. Out of all the songs we’ve…
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Breaking news: CD volume 8 is out early! We were supposed to be getting CD8 from the factory next week, but they’ve actually sent them on their way already so I figured I might as well get it on the site. There are song samples, picture cards and new mini cards and all sorts on…
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Normally day 2 of a 3 day workshop ends on a “will they really be able to do this?” note. But today’s teachers were fine right from the start. It does take a bit of getting used to teaching Genki English, especially the idea that pronunciation and learning something new actually matters, but once you’ve…
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