For the first time in ages today I’ve had the chance to sit down and work through my “non urgent” email folder. Hopefully I’ll be up to speed with everyone by the end of today! Some really great ideas have been sent in on the Readers Games page. I’m really impressed as they are nearly…

On Saturday the 25th of November ( that’s this Saturday!) I’ll be having 3 workshops in Korea. One in the morning for Korean kindergarten teachers ( very basic songs + games), one for elementary school teachers in the afternoon ( more detailed games, songs) and then a CALL workshop on using Genki English and computers…

Just to continue the Christmas games theme… The weather clap clap game is a great way to practice any theme that has a question + answer approach. But for the Genki Christmas theme there isn’t a question! So instead try chanting “Christmas, Christmas, ho, ho, ho!”, then everyone mimes ( and says ) either the…

There aren’t that many ideas for teaching “clothes” on the site at the moment, so how about this Christmas variation… First of all put several oversized Santa outfits ( from the 100 yen store!) at one end of the room 1. Put the kids in teams. 2. Everyone asks “What’s he wearing?” 3. You shout…

I popped along to the joint meeting of ACET and ETJ in Fukuoka today. There was a big bunch of teachers who had some great ideas. Two of the teachers had planned to do the “What would you like for Christmas?” theme. It was great to see it work so well, and go so smoothly….

After my last post about thinking of getting a Mac computer, I had quite few people saying I should take another look at them. I have actually popped into the computer store a couple of times but each time the Macbook Pro crashed! ( Once with Logic Express, once with Front Row). But my main…