After 20 years teaching on 3 continents and who knows how many countries, I’ve just finished a whole year teaching entirely online. No commutes.  No planes to catch.  No rushing to classrooms.   Just the ability to spend longer in each country (beaches in Thailand and summer in Tuscany) and a constant search for great wifi…

You do know that phonics is totally different to the “phonetic alphabet” yeah? I’m just asking because I’ve seen a LOT of teachers on Facebook confusing the two. What’s “phonics”? Phonics is simply how you teach reading.  It’s used the world over.  It’s dead easy and gets great results (even though it has quite a…

Two of the most popular Genki English products are the Genki Business course,  which shows school owners, freelance teachers or teachers who wish to break free from their current teaching job how to double their teaching incomes and the Genki English Homework Program, which let’s you earn another stream of income by re-selling the Genki…

It’s summer time! To get you in the mood, here are the top 3 Genki English Summer lessons!  Don’t forget your Sunscreen! The follow up to the very operatic Baby Monkey’s Winter Clothes comes the summer edition with plenty of class games plus a really cool picture book – what’s not to love! 🙂  …

If you find your kids being a little lackluster in their singing or output, the way to fix this is just like how we conquered the 4 minute mile   We simply change the goal of the “input” section of the lesson.   Instead of just “playing” the song for the kids, we want to…

We’ve been a bit advanced in the recent Q&As so I wanted to break it right down and do a “Beginners guide” for people who are right at the start of your teaching adventure. Plus of course it’s always great for advanced teachers to review some of the core key themes about teaching English. It’s…