Author Archives: Richard Graham

Fancy a free trip to the UK? + Trash

The British Council ( who are organising my mini Thailand tour next month) are again this year running their Team Teaching competition in Japan. The first prize is a Virgin Atlantic ticket for you and your JTE ( Japanese Teacher of English) from Japan to the UK. Very nice. I attended the prize giving ceremony…

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Kids English in the Classroom

When I first wrote the Kids English series in 2002 I was really happy that I could do all the fun parts of writing a course for kids, but the publishers paid for people to do all the hard work of putting all the nuts and bolts together! They always sold the product for kids…

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Do you like…? Song – Easy to Teach Remix

I’ve always liked CD3s “Do you like…?” song, but I’ve had a lot of feedback from teachers who don’t like the fact that the kids have to rehearse the song before you can sing it. This is one reason why I don’t often use it in demo classes myself. Similarly I’ve also had feedback from…

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Cool Cartoons of famous Japanese people

One of the most popular downloads for Junior High teachers over the last year has been the Famous People cards. Well over on the forum there has been a couple of great threads of everyone’s recommended internet links. One brilliant site, found by Gumby, is of cartoons of Japanese celebrities. The site is in Japanese,…

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Olympic Medals Game

Have you been watching the snowboarding? Pretty good stuff. One great game for the Olympics is to everyday print out the medals table in English from the Torino website. Then… Give each group a copy. Ask a question, such as “How many medals does Finland have?” The quickest team to answer is the winner. Draw…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/olympic-medals-game/