Quite a few of the teachers last week also taught Business English. A lot of Genki English style games are actually used by businesses in in-house training ( I learnt a few good ideas on the course I did at Arthur Andersen). At the end of last week’s workshop teachers were saying “Well, yes it…

With all the games on the site, one question that often crops up is “Do I really have to do a different game each lesson?”. The easy answer is, of course, “no, not at all”. Whilst the English content of the lessons should always be on an upward spiral ( there’s not point just doing…

Reader BBB put a comment on the forum the other day about the “Japanese stick” idea I mentioned in the last post. . The comment being that it’s not a good idea to use in places like Okinawa where the Japanese authorities used to use a similar technique to shame people for using their native…

One big difference between workshops in Europe and Asia is that in Europe there are often more requests for “keeping the kids under control” type ideas. Once you get the warm up right most kids keep under control for a period of at least a year, but of course you need to keep coming up…