One of the reasons I first started this website ( almost exactly 8 years ago), was because I thought the web was the best medium to share game ideas. Mainly because animated pictures make it so easy to see how to do things. Of course from the very beginning people were then asking me to…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/lesson-plans-book/
When I first volunteered to do some training in Thailand five years ago I had no idea how big this would all become. Now it’s 2007 and we have the job of training teachers in every single school in the country. With tens of thousands of schools it’s a big, big project to do. Of…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/thailand-on-to-millions-of-students/
I’ve got workshops all next week in Bangkok and today I popped in for the briefing session and I finally got to see the Thailand Ministry of Education’s and the British Council’s versions of the Genki English packs. They’ve actually come out really, really well! The funny thing is that there is now an official…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/thailand-thai-ministry-genki-books-cds/
Today we have a very nice game, in fact it’s one of my favourites, for use with the new Can you kick? song. It’s basically just a modified version of the Do you have..? game, but it’s one of the easiest ways to get the kids practising “Can you…?”. You do need a lot of…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/can-you-kick-game/
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/
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/
