UPDATE: Β All the workshops mentioned in this article have now finished – thank you to everyone who came! Β To find out where I’ll be next, check out the schedule page here.
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Thank you to everyone who came to today’s full day 6 hour workshop in Nagoya! After 100 people yesterday (which I’ll blog about tomorrow!) it was great to have a group where everyone could talk, ask questions and make requests.
In amongst all the teaching philosophy, ideas for upper grades and motivation talk, here are some of the activities we did:
– Disco Warm Up + Warm Up Game
– What’s your name?
– Super hero + Drawing Game
– Do you like? + Genki Karuta
– Genki Korean – to feel how the kids feel!
– Mingle
– Left & Right + German version + Mr Bump Game
– Under the sea + Nemo Game
– Eigo Note
We also did some of the Picture Books and talked about the Wii Digital Whiteboard.
The next big workshop is in Shikoku this coming weekend, so please come along, there’s going to be a fantastic group of people there! For readers in Europe, there’s a big workshop in Vienna in November. See the schedule page for details. Hopefully I’ll also have the first Genki English workshop in Africa worked out for the Autumn as well.
Akita Workshops
And for those in the North of Japan, I’ll be doing a Teachers’ Workshop & a “Confidence Training and Genki English Show” for kids in Odate CityΒ in Akita prefecture. The city is paying for all the workshops so both the (normally 9,000 yen) teachers’ workshop and kids’ show are free!
August 18th: Teachers’ Workshop from 10am to 5PM
August 19th: Kids Confidence Training & Genki English Show 10:30AM – 11:30 AM
To reserve your place please contact Mariko Kataoka in Japanese on 0186-43-7115 at Odate City’s Board of Education.
Oh, and this is what I had for lunch – Nagoya Unagi!
Wow that looks delicious. What a great way to eat it too, especially having seconds of your favourite!
Looks fabulous. Neat idea to eat with different ‘sauces’. Can you tell us what the principal ingredient is (not the rice of course!)? Thanks for sharing.
Let’s leave it in Japanese as delicious “unagi” for now!
Carol check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unagi
(I think it looks so tasty, but it does not sound so good now in English!! That’s the problem sometimes its better not to know, as I imagine it does taste really great. It is just not something many Europeans or Americans are used to.)
(I actually had the chance to eat sushi with wasabi last week in Vienna – wow it was so good! I really fance a trip to Japan now!)
Thanks Flossy! Duh, I could’ve thought of looking it up myself… oh well!
Doesn’t sound that bad to me… my husband loves sushi and orders it all the time whenever we travel because there are no Japanese here!!
But fermented soybeans sound alot worse to me!! LOL
well, meanwhile everybody knows, and I’m happy that I am not the only one who takes a step backward, when thinking of UNAGI.
BUT yes it is a big big delicates, here. And My kids drive me crazy to go to an Unagi restaurant.
Well, we did so one, and I must admit the atmosphere is wonderful, I even a tried a bit (in such a great atmosphere it’s always easier to overcome the own limited mind) and it was okay.
Well, the ones at the supermarket I hate, though.
Still it is one of the most expensive places we’ve been to eat, not even to compare with good sushi~so my kids have to wait.
Flossy, come to Japan, I think you would love it. Actually now with economics being so bad it’s a good time. Things are getting really cheap.
Hi Richard
I am also teaching in one of small japanese school.
I’m teaching kindagarden to junior high school
students.kids who comes on daliy basis they are
doing nicely they can understand English n revert
as well but the problem is that children who comes
only once in a week they can understand but not
able to conversate.I always try to do my best.
So i’ll be highly greatful to you if you could provide
me some useful tips for them…
Best Regards
Gaurika