There’s a new picture book to try out on the CD Owners Forum. This time it’s clothes and is great for this time of year. Clothes is always a tough theme, mainly because of the US/UK difference in words. Luckily with this picture book they all turned out to be international which is quite nice!…

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…