Today I was on the radio to promote the new hip hop podcast songs. The DJ, Tim, uses the kids songs on his TV show and seemed quite impressed with the funky new adult tracks. I haven’t been on the radio for ages and it was quite a fun time. The studio faces on to…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/japan-genki-english-on-fm/
I bumped into Patrick Jackson at the ETJ conference on Sunday. He was trying to get everyone to wear one of his potato pals costumes ( he claims to have a picture of the new Prime Minister wearing one!). Anyway, he didn’t get me in the outfit, but he’s put a picture up on his…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/the-secret-potato-pals/
Today I was asked to help out at the ETJ conference in Fukuoka. But this time as a member on the panel discussion for school owners. As I don’t actually own a school, that sounded a little strange at first, but it was good to put on my businessman hat and help out with some…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/etj-owners-panel-tprs/
As an early Christmas present to you and your students, here’s a brand new Hip Hop song: “I have to… I can!“. Basically I wanted to get people out of the “I have to do this and I have to do that” frame of mind and into the “I can do this and I can…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/i-have-to-i-can-podcast/
I’ve had quite a few of people getting in touch to complain how they can’t find the Genki Christmas software section on CD4. Well, it is there. To find it you have to think like a kid. Or give a kid the mouse and see it appear instantly! It’s cool that so many people are…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/think-like-a-christmas-kid/
The KOTESOL people are really into using computers to help the kids. In yesterday’s workshops I had a break so checked out some of the CALL (computer aided language learning) workshops. Jason Renshaw ( of English Raven fame ) did a great one on how he uses his own OnlinEnglish.net ( just one “E”) and…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/korea-call/
