I went to the Primary Languages Show in Manchester today. I wasn’t presenting this year, but I was back in the UK mixing the new album so figured I’d pop along. It is amazing to see how the situation in the UK is almost identical to that in Asia, with many teachers worried about having…

There’s already a video of “How to teach Genki English: the basics” online, but quite a few teachers have asked to see how everything works in an actual class. So that’s what today’s video is, the first ten minutes of my standard first class. If you like it, please give it some good marks at…

Ever since the Team Taught Pizza sold out last year, I’ve had teachers wanting to get their hands on a copy. But not content with merely revising the TTP, this time AJET have added in whole new sections on Team Teaching, Learning Theory, Instructional Planning and Elementary Schools. Hence the rename of the book to…

I found a nice little site with games for teachers of French. One of the ideas that I liked was the “The Queen of England never…” game…. 1) You write the phrase on the board. 2) Kids race to the front and take turns to continue the sentence in as many ways possible. Examples they…

Hearing the GE songs is one thing, actually seeing the how the gestures and everything works in real life is something else! So I’ve just put up 3 videos of large classes singing three of the songs: Left & Right, What time is it, Mr Wolf? & the Thank You song. For all of the…

Another tip for yesterday’s “What do you want to do?” song is that it’s very easy to change into “What do you want to be?”, which can otherwise be a bit of a mouthful to teach in one go. From a motivation/careers education perspective, remember it’s not just English that we teach, “I am a…