Author Archives: Richard Graham

How many? games

To go with yesterday’s “How many … do you have?” song, today we have the “How many?” game. The nice thing about this game is you can use it to review any set of vocab or classroom objects such as pens, pencils etc. You also can try the mingle game, have the kids sing the…

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The Oscar for best song goes to ….How many

To celebrate the Academy Awards this evening we interrupt our “Game a Day” series to present you with the all singing, all dancing “How many … do you have?” song! It’s a lot more “cutesy” than the normal Genki Songs, so it’s up here as a free bonus download for you. It should work great…

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Barbarians & Romans

Here we have another game sent in by Nigel, it’s another epic battle game called “9 lives – Barbarians & Romans“, should be lots of fun! If you’re a user of the del.icio.us bookmarking site, you’ll also find links at the bottom of each page on the site so you can remember which ideas you…

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Disaster Game

I’ve had to change the name of today’s game, sent in by Rick, to “The Disaster Game” ( you’ll see why in the instructions), and it’s a really good game. Of course don’t even think about using it if you think it will upset your kids! I’ve also added in a load of new Genki…

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Number Golf

Yesterday we had a higher level activity, so for today here’s a really simple idea for practising numbers either 1 to 20, or up to the tens of thousands. Enjoy Emily’s Number Golf.

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Junior High Idea

From today I’m starting a new “Game a Day” series. Today’s is a very nice idea from reader Sara Wolsey called “Around the World Trip“. It’s great for practising past or future tense. Enjoy and check back tomorrow for another game!

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/junior-high-idea/