Author Archives: Richard Graham

Medium Size, A5 Picture Cards

As you have probably found out, printing out hundreds of picture cards can be a nightmare, especially if your school or board of education puts a strict limit on how much ink you can use. One option is to print at home where you can take advantage of cheap ink replacement cartridges. One other idea…

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Breakfast & Genies

This morning I was thinking back and it’s only a few years since AJET offered Genki English a spare room to put on an unofficial workshop after the main Tokyo Recontracting Conference. At the time the Ministry of Education didn’t even admit ALTs visited elementary schools. Hence there were no travel expenses and one time…

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Tokyo Conference

Today was the Tokyo version of the Kobe JET Programme renewers conference I did last month, which both together had about 1,000 participants. As usual it was a different vibe in Tokyo to Kobe ( bigger city, so people are more dispersed I guess), and things were overall very good. I did, however, mess up…

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Planets & slow, slow phonics

One of the great things about Genki English is all the amazing ideas people send in to share with everyone. Sometimes they take a bit of work to make public ( especially things with copyrights of images etc.), but they are always really good ideas. Today I finally managed to get Atley Jonas’ Days of…

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Foxy Phonics

Phonics ( basically teaching “ah, buh, cuh” instead of “Ay, Bee, See”) is becoming a worldwide pandemic at the moment. The UK & Australia have recently decided to bring it back on a national level, and in the States courses such as “Hooked on Phonics” are hugely popular. The idea being that if the kids…

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The American Idol Classroom

I just watched the American Idol final on Fox tonight ( Japan is a week late). There were special guests everywhere and brilliant songs, what a fantastic piece of TV. Great entertainment is all about moving people, changing emotions to inspire, to relax, to take people on a trip where you acquire knowledge without you…

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