Last night I put up another YouTube video on the Genki Japan website, this time for hot, cold, fun & interesting ( words you hear everyday in Japan!). The crazy thing is that by this morning it had already been viewed over 100 times and had 5 comments, all before I’d even linked it up…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/youtube-japanese/
The animals card game has been a huge hit with the kids (just make sure you stick to the original rules though!). One of the side effects is that you end up learning a whole load of facts, because that’s how you get good at the game. Mind you in the animals game it’s not…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/the-animals-card-game-has-been-a-huge-hit-with-the-kids-just-make-sure-you-stick-to-the-original-rules-though/
As promised, here are some cards of “strange foods”. You can use them with the Do you like..? theme to easily introduce “Yes, I do!” and “No, I don’t!”. The cards were designed for Japanese kids, and although all the kids get a reaction, in some classes they actually like the weird stuff, and in…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/do-you-like-strange-foods/
The teachers at this school were so good in Summer that I promised to pop back in term time to do some demo classes for their kids. The teachers were already aiming high and I wanted to see just how good the kids could get. Obviously this is a fantastic school ( even though it’s…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/nagasaki-favourite-5th-graders/
I usually do the launch of a new CD at the Maruzen book store in Fukuoka, but this year decided to do it as part of the ACET teachers group as they have always been so good to me. Usually it’s a very relaxed vibe, but today we had lots of new teachers who were…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/fukuoka-cd7-party/
Today I was asked to help out at a teacher’s “eikaiwa” or private English class. I usually don’t do these types of classes ( please don’t write in asking me to visit one – I just don’t have the time!), but the teacher today has been really helpful and as I was in town I…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/eikaiwa-class-jhs/
