As expected day 3 of the training was much better. I decided to hold back on having the teachers do too much too soon on their own so concentrated on going through the basic themes such as Where are you from?, How old are you? etc. and making sure that the language, activities and context…

To keep things flowing, and also because we had electricity, I was on this morning with the phonics workshops in the afternoon. After yesterday’s storming success there was no problem that the Indian teachers could sing, play the games and be incredibly genki about it all. Today was to get them used to teaching themselves,…

4 days of workshops for 70 teachers, half phonics and half Genki English. Sounds fairly straight forward? Well, this morning was quite an Indian experience, just bordering on chaos but miraculously by 10:30 the room was full of very genki teachers, all in wonderful Indian dress, and everything was ready to go. Well nearly ready,…

Yesterday was arriving and straight into meetings. Today was a look around the schools. The project we’re involved with is for schools in very poor areas but I was actually quite impressed with their facilities. Of course they are very basic, very hot, no windows and quite cramped for the number of students, but it…

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…