Instead of being sponsored by a Board of Education or University, today we organised everything ourselves and it turned out really well with teachers from all over the country (some even taking overnight buses!) to get here. So thank you very much!

We did have a lot of first time elementary school teachers so it was quite a bit slow going in places compared to everyone being a Genki English fan, but it turned out quite well.

We started out with a needs analysis which came up with some cool stuff like how to learn loads of vocab quickly, what to do when you have three teachers (i.e. class teacher, a Japanese English teacher and a foreign ALT teacher), plus all the usual suspects such as what to do if you don’t speak English, how to make lessons fun, what to do with shy kids etc.

Content wise we did the Disco Warm Up + Warm Up Game, making mistakes is good, showing GE is a little different
– What’s your name? – eye contact, body posture, confidence
– Super hero – communication skills and confidence
– Eat! Drink! Dance! + What are you doing? + Harry Potter
– Where are you going?
– Genki Korean – to feel how the kids feel!
– Mingle
– Under the sea + Nemo Game
– Eigo Note

+ a few others which I can’t remember at the moment!

I took some video so I’ll see if there is anything that might be useful for you and put it up on the site!