I’m just about to head to the airport to fly to India. As I’m probably going to be doing lots of workshops and might not have internet (nor electricity it seems!) all the time, there might be a delay in my replying to emails. I also have a full inbox from this week to work…
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I went to see Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull last night. Well, hmm, yeah, it probably was worth going to see at the cinema, but only just! Anyway here’s another Indiana Jones inspired game “Indiana Jones & the Secret Code”. It’s based on the popular, but now long in the tooth, Da Vinci Code…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/indiana-jones-the-secret-code/
The “How many…?” song I wrote to practice “How many?” (surprise, surprise!). But until now there hasn’t been a simple song for teaching just the numbers on their own. In Japan the “Seven Steps” song is quite popular, but not so much elsewhere. So I’ve just put up a new demo song that takes the…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/new-numbers-song/
Two more card games for you today. One is for personal pronouns and stationery. e.g. He has a pencil. Although you could also change it for possessive pronouns e.g. It’s her book. To avoid grammar complications with things like “scissors” and “glue” I’ve just stuck to items that can be used with “a” or “an”…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/pronouns-clothes/
I was at a farm today. Not just any old farm, but one of the funky new ones with well trained guides: The Big Sheep & Little Cow Farm. “Be quiet!” is a shout of many an adult unused to dealing with kids, but the farmers today were masters of kid control, using the time…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/kid-control-big-sheep-little-cows/
Yesterday I popped into the University of Newcastle for a chat about the upcoming Genki English trip to India. It does seem like a very exciting, very different and very interesting project to be involved with. Not least of which is because of the just-on-the-right-side-of-crazy people who are running things! I’m sure I’ll be writing…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/university-of-newcastle/
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