文部科学省の『英語ノート』に合わせた小学校英語活動のページをご覧ください。 I’ve just done a Japanese page with some extra ideas and comments for the new 5th & 6th grade curriculum. I’ll get to work on the English one this week!

Just a quick word to let you know that the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT) has just released on their website preliminary details of the new 5th & 6th grade compulsory English curriculum. http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/gaikokugo/index.htm The site is in Japanese but also includes worksheets, flashcards etc. to go with the new “textbook” (which they are calling…

Today it’s the turn of the GenkiJapan.net site to get an update, this time with the Weather in Japanese song / video. I haven’t checked the stats yet, but with 1000 people subscribed to the YouTube channel I imagine quite a few people have already seen it. The nice thing that’s happening at the moment…

If any of you saw Carolyn Graham’s recent tour of Asia you’ll know she really rocks. She was the first person to popularise “Jazz Chants” where you take a record and chant your class’ target English over the top. If you get the music to fit the words (and not the other way round) it…

I had a request the other week for activities to teach “Whose … is this?”. I’ve never found anything that just clicked with this theme, until I came across the simplest of simple ideas on the net the other day: http://www.sendaiedu.com/stopthiefpossessives It’s a really simple idea… 1. Go round the class and collect something from…

As you know we like a little glitz and glamour here at Genki English. So today I’m very proud to present the latest Genki English CD – “Celebrities Sing Genki English Greatest Hits“. It’s taken months of swanning around the world, hob nobbing with the stars and signing up the biggest names to record their…