I got the new PEPY newsletter today with a nice link to some lesson plans about Cambodia. They look good for Junior or Senior High and are a great way to support the work PEPY are doing.
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/cambodia-japan-lesson-plans/
Now FREE with the Teachers’ Set! When I used to travel around I’d often hear teachers saying things like “I don’t use …. song, because I don’t know how to teach it”. If you just play the song, it can be pretty boring (well, still better than most kids songs, but not that exciting). But…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/gestures-actions-dvd/
It’s 10 months since I’ve been in Japan and I’m only here for a week. It’s actually been rather nice, almost like a holiday. The best thing has been cramming in as much gorgeous Japanese food as I can. There are so many great things to eat here from ramen to unagi, bibimba and all…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/a-nice-week-in-japan/
After arriving back last night, this morning it was straight into a set of workshops at Osaka’s Shoin University sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education. My workshop was part of a 6 day course, split over several weekends and although there were 70 people I had 4 time slots with 20 people each. Compared…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/workshop-in-japan/
It was my last breakfast in India this morning, and the drive to the airport was still as exotic as when I first arrived. India is beautiful, so photogenic and unbelievably colourful. Then I had a 15 hour wait over in Dubai so whilst sipping cocktails in the Le Meridian I actually got most of…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/dubai-dune-trek/
I had been warned that yesterday’s school was a bit “posh”, well relatively speaking, for the schools we are working with. So today I asked to go to some of the poorer schools. I wanted to see this because when you do reach a certain level of poverty then the learning begins to suffer from…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/really-poor/
