Author Archives: Richard Graham

Halloween in Tokushima

Today was a great school. And it started off with a great set of teachers. The gig today was a show in the afternoon and then a teaching workshop afterwards. However the teacher who I’d been in touch with also asked me to do a demo lesson for just her class in the fourth period….

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/halloween-in-tokushima/

Typhoon ( again!)

Wow, this year is crazy, another typhoon and this one was another biggy! But one lucky thing was that I didn’t have to get up early as the school I was supposed to visit was cancelled. So managed to catch up on computer work. Then in the evening I went out for dinner and the…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/typhoon-again/

Mini Cards!

One of the most requested items I’ve had over the years has been Miniature Versions of the A4 picture cards. And today I finally got round to producing them! I did a few this morning, and sent out a couple of emails to people and also on the discussion board. I was actually planning to…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/mini-cards/

Tokushima

It was an absolutely gorgeous day today, perfect weather. And as luck would have it I was heading off to Shikoku, great! The bus ride was quite nice, I got a lot of work done, then to settle into the hotel that will be home for the next 5 days. In the evening I had…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/tokushima/

Nellie’s, loads of card games

Today was another model presentation, brilliant. I did the same contents as last week in Tokyo ( What’s your name?, then the Teaching Guide Video, then some Genki Phonics ( the CD quizzes proved popular!), mingle, the Genki card game and finished with the Halloween song) And they just loved it! In fact they loved…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/nellies-loads-of-card-games/

New Tracks and Osaka

Had a deadline to send a couple of demos off to my publisher today. I already had one recorded and planned on doing another. But whilst playing around I came up with a really cool idea for another song, so just sat down and produced it! Yeah! So I sent all three off, let’s see…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/new-tracks-and-osaka/