OK I’m going to go for a Halloween theme for this week’s Lesson of the Week. And my number one favourite lesson for Halloween is Who is in the haunted house? This kids love it, Β you get to teach the questions word “who” and rooms of the house, and best of all you get all…
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Suha and many others wrote in with some very popular questions, so I figured you might find the answers useful too, How to cope with multi-level classes ? A few options… If you have no control, e.g. in a government school, Β then you have to do co-operative style teaching where the stronger kids teach the…
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After very successful kids’ demo classes yesterday (which I’ll write up soon!) today’s Masterclass for teachers was totally different to last week’s in Yaroslavl. Β There we had super Genki English fans with amazing questions who’d travelled from all over to see me. Β However Β today we had mostly government school teachers who were very much in…
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Yes, it does get earlier and earlier each year! Rather than just having halloween as background music, here at Genki English we do things slightly differently. Β Instead of just Β Halloween words, weΒ use the power of Halloween (kids love it afterall!) to teach the regular English topics in an even more fun way. And of…
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I wanted to start off today with a quote Katya put on Facebook: Dear Richard, the seminar is great! Thank you. It is worth travelling for 48 hours from Volgograd. To the teachers in Izevsk – please, do not miss your chance!!! 48 hours!! Β And the thing is Katya didn’t travel the furthest, we had…
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Today was the first day of my first visit to Russia – very exciting. I arrived in Moscow at 8:30 last night, then it took till 4:30 this morning to get to Yaroslavl. Β Then up again at 8! The main two day workshop is tomorrow, but seeing as so many teachers had flown in from…
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