Author Archives: Richard Graham

UK’s MFL Scheme of Work

The UK government have just published their new MFL ( Modern Foreign Languages) Scheme of Work for Key Stage 2. It’s very dense and very comprehensive and maybe a touch dry in places, but it should give you a few of ideas for whichever language you are teaching.

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/uks-mfl-scheme-of-work/

Okayama – Teaching 2000 kids in day

When you do school visits, you sometimes have bad days and sometimes you have good days. To be honest today didn’t start very well as I had to spend the first 30 minutes wiring up the schools broken sound system – I can’t remember the amount of times I’ve had to do that! But then…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/okayama-teaching-2000-kids-in-day/

Where is Baby Monkey? Rooms game

One of the best things I like about Genki English is that as soon as I put up a comment on the Where is Baby Monkey? page that I don’t have a suitable game yet, people keep telling me about some great suggestions! The best one was from Cesar and the Okinawa group last week,…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/where-is-baby-monkey-rooms-game/

New CD7 $12 Download

If you can’t wait till Monday to get your hands on the new themes, I’ve just updated the Download Pack to include the all new CD7 songs. And if you are a CD Owners Club member you can also buy the download of the new songs, as opposed to ordering the CD. ( I was…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/new-cd7-12-download/

Tokyo JET ( Japan Exchange & Teaching) Conference

Most of the content of today was as the 2007 Kobe Recontracting Conference, but I did make a few changes. First of all we started off with the new Genki Disco Warm Up, that went down really well, it looks so good with so many people dancing in unison! Then for the German song (…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/tokyo-jet-japan-exchange-teaching-conference/

A4 Magic & Okinawa

First up today is a request for A4 versions of the Magic Corner cards. I had a lot of feedback this weekend that it works great in class except that only half the kids can see the pictures! So now all the kids can see what’s going on. Apparently it’s also good for 6th graders…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/a4-magic-okinawa/