Had the first Okinawa Genki English Bootcamp in Nago City today. 40 people attended which was amazing for a Sunday and although doing everything in English & Japanese did take up quite a lot of time it was a very nice day. Thanks to everyone for joining in !

Here’s most of what we did:

What’s your name?
How are you? + Monster Game
What are doing? + Harry Potter
Where are you going? + Leapfrog game
Rocket Launch.
Colours
6th Graders + Projects
Plus a touch of phonics ( but for JHS rather than elementary)

Other things that came up where how to communicate with classroom teachers and how to explain the games with no Japanese. As usual the answer is to simply print out the Japanese version of each song/game and pass it to the teacher. We also had a quick look at the Classroom English / Classroom Japanese page.

Then in the afternoon we went through even more ideas…

Genki English variation of Karuta with “Do you like…?”
Ordering Food song
How much? + Bargaining game
Fruit Market song
Plus a couple of secret new CD7 songs “Genki Disco Warm Up”, “Time Part 2” and “Do you have any brothers and sisters?”.
Then a few games to finish off with Balloon Game, Card Game, “What did you say?” game and the Thank you song.

Thanks for all your questions and requests, I had a great time and I hope you found it useful. There’s also the online video workshop if you want to catch up with any of the Genki English rules ( and a version in Japanese).

And the order forms you picked up allow you order the Superpacks with free postage and packing!

I’ll be back in Okinawa in August so if you or any of your schools want to have a workshop, please get in touch!