If you want to learn a bit of Korean, be sure to check out the upcoming Genki Korean site. As you’ll see it’s not finished yet, but there are a few nice little games on there including a talking alphabet page and some very nice numbers games. It’s quite fun to play and it really…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/learn-korean-genkikoreancom/
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…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/naughty-curiosity/
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…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/naughty-kids/
Now I’ve done quite a lot of international workshops it’s a lot less stressful not having to worry about what things to present and what things will go down well. As long as I start slow, take plenty of questions and do lots of the songs & games pretty much everything seems to work great!…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/genki-english-in-cologne-germany/
I’m supposed to be in Germany today, but with all the typhoon like winds and cancelled flights in Europe at the moment I’ve suddenly found a spare day, which means I can also update the blog! Reader Dawna sent me an email yesterday. She sent in a very nice idea of using the Mr Wolf…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/how-much-is-it-mr-wolf-school-subjects/
A couple of years ago I wrote a motivation book to get learners geared up and totally enthused about getting really good at English. Basically that’s what I spend all my time in Japan doing and it was great to get it down on paper. Last year a few publishers were asking about it, but…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/english-urawaza/
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