Eric just put a great post about how he is enjoying his latest picture book as a “kamishibai.” Kamishibai is a fabulous Japanese way of telling a story that works soooo well for English teachers too. It’s very similar to reading a picture book.  However,  instead of turning pages you have each page printed and…

Some spooky Halloween storytelling today! First of all for B1/B2 level there is the Halloween Story Guide on Page 75 of the VIP Storytelling Course Slides: Ninja Tip:  I’m thinking of uploading the video training I did for the Storytelling course,  would that be of use to you?  Let me know and I’ll see what…

Elena has been on a roll making some excellent new “Genki It” games for the different Genki English levels. And today she has made a super top secret Halloween version of the Genki It game! VIPs can find it in the VIP Facebook group – enjoy! Ninja Tip:  And if you’re not a VIP yet,…

There’s a new picture book for you today!!! Hamster Monster & Monkey Mummy – What do you want to be for Halloween? And of course it’s got to be FUN!!  (When I had my first 12 hardback Picture Books published I was put through a crash course with all the top picture book writers, editors…

It’s very cool to see Captain Kirk going into space!  And going to space in general is a very, very good thing. As someone who went to Japan to join their space program and who now works in “fixing Earth’s problems” (by trying to Genkify the horrendous state of the world’s schools) I can definitely…

One of the really cool things about Halloween is that you can have lots of fun playing around with the pronunciation. This is just how we learnt English – from Saturday morning cartoons that emphasized and overemphasized the different parts of speech, especially the ones kids find difficult. So give it a try in your…