Thanks to everyone who came to the huge workshop this weekend! Β Unfortunately the university didn’t have permission to post the videos online, but here are a couple from last week’s workshop in Fukuoka. The first is how to teach the “No Saturday?” mix of the Days of the Week song. The basic ideas is that…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/gestures-for-days-school-subjects/
On last week’s New Board Game post Glenn asked to have snakes and ladders games that only go to 50, for lessons when the kids don’t have time. A really cool way around this (as making lots of new sheets is a * lot * of work π ) is to say “Today is double…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/double-play-triple-play-for-when-you-just-dont-have-time/
I’ve blogged about how you can use a $40 Wii remote control to make any projector into a digital whiteboard. Β But did you know you can also do it with any normal TV? Β Instructions are on Johnny Chung’s Site. Β You can just click on the TV screen! Here we’re using it with some Japanese teachers…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/make-your-tv-into-a-digital-whiteboard/
Gaz has been hard at work making up new worksheets and worksheet games for you to use with the new vol. 11 lessons – they work really great as something for the kids to take home and play with their parents! Here are just a few: Shapes & Head & Shoulders Dice (how to play?)…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/more-worksheets-snakes-ladders-8-sided-dice/
After the success of last year’s Β “Ninja Bootcamps” (basically where you get to teach in front of everyone!) I’ve decided to move all this summers’ workshops to “Ninja” format. Doing the 1 day workshops was fine, but the teachers who really weren’t up to standard motivation wise I felt were really hindering you guys, the…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/2011-ninja-bootcamps/
This week’s game comes from Michael Jeffcoat in Hong Kong, it’s a very cool reward game! I have never seen this game fail to actually (as hard it may be to believe) get the whole class engaged. Even my 11/10 yr old girls in Hong Kong really get into it!! This is an excellent motivator…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/draw-off/
