Author Archives: Richard Graham

Dream English

It seems there are more and more people out there recording songs for learning English. One new one is Matt from Dream English. We met up for a chat in Fukuoka last month and he’s very kindly blogged about it. Again Matt’s songs are a lot slower than the Genki English style, and you can…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/dream-english/

Festival Videos

Over on the GenkiJapan.net website I’ve just put up a Japanese Festival Foods video. It’s like a mini TV show where you can learn the names of some Japanese foods. I would love to do the same thing for learning English, unfortunately nobody seems interested in having English ones! I’ve also put up a Japanese…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/festival-videos/

Games In Video

One of the cool things about the Super Simple Songs site are all the great YouTube videos ( click through from the discount page). There are also lots of great videos of ESL games etc. on the net, but the trick is finding them. So I’ve linked up to a few videos on the games…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/games-in-video/

Super Simple Songs Discount

Seeing as I was in Yokohama today I caught up with Devon and Troy of Super Simple Songs. It was great to hear about the success they are having with their CDs, and YouTube. If you teach younger kids (like 1 or 2 year olds) or want a smoother, slower tempo to your classes, they…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/super-simple-songs-discount/

Yokohama & danger

Today was a workshop at Yokohama’s Yashima Gakuen University. There were quite a few people on the bill, including a couple of big stars. The first one was Oosugi Sensei. He’s famous from NHK TV and radio and had a huge fan base crammed into the rather large room. He’s a nice guy, but his…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/yokohama-danger/

House things picture cards

Rosebud very kindly put a message on the request forum for individual A4 picture cards of the background items in the “Rooms of the House” theme. So here you go, 49 brand new picture cards! You can either use them as vocab practice on their own, or link it in with the “Where is baby…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/house-things-picture-cards/