Author Archives: Richard Graham

School Subjects

Hope you had a nice weekend! Last term we had a request for ideas for teaching “school subjects” ( math(s), English, PE, science etc.). Although I explained that it’s not one of the themes I personally like, as it’s usually not kids but teachers who make the request, I’m glad to say that Atley Jonas…

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First Lesson when you don’t speak the lingo

And to the final post in this series, what to do in a first lesson when you don’t speak your students’ language. I know whenever I do a class in a new country for the first time it can be terrifying. You walk in there, nobody speaks any languages you understand ( because if they…

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First Lesson in Junior High School

The number one top idea for a first Junior High School lesson is without doubt the “What’s your name?” lesson. As I wrote in the “6th graders” article, even the hardest nosed too-cool-for-school 6th graders turn back into little angels in the first year of Junior High. And after a week full of entrance ceremonies…

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First Lesson in Video with NHK

I was putting up some new stuff on YouTube yesterday and noticed that someone had uploaded the documentary NHK did about Genki English a few years ago. So I’ve linked it up from the site. The show is in Japanese but you can see a bit of how I write the songs & some of…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/first-lesson-in-video-with-nhk/

First lesson of the year, if you speak …

To be a bit more constructive today I’m going to start a series of three posts on what to do in the first lesson of the year. ( Quite a few countries start their school year this week). The first one today will be the number one super best lesson lesson I have, but you…

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Murdering Dr Seuss

One of the main things that keeps me going with Genki English is because of all the really bad learning materials out there. I love it when I come across something that’s good as I can simply recommend it and get one with something else. But far too often some of the material available is…

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