If you’re flying from Japan to overseas locations, the company I use to book my tickets is No.1 Travel. They’re cheap, friendly and they’re just sorting out my schedule for next month which is looking just crazy. There’s something to be said for putting development time and presentation time in blocks, but it means in…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/flights-from-japan/
I got an email this morning saying the phone number on the Kids English page was wrong, and indeed it was. The correct number is 0898-48-0256. I’m really grateful to the lady who wrote in. If anyone else spots any mistakes in the site, please let me know!
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/embarrassing-phone-numbers/
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…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/fancy-a-free-trip-to-the-uk-trash/
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…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/kids-english-in-the-classroom/
Sent off the new newsletter today.
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/march-newsletter/
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…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/do-you-like-song-easy-to-teach-remix/
