Here are the latest winners of the “blog comment of the month” chosen at random (by pointing at the screen then calling up all the comments that month.)  Each of you win a Genki English CD (or Hip Hop or Genki Relax) of your choice! January: Carol who commented on New Genki Phonics Workbook | Genki…

The World is football crazy and your classroom can be too with the Come on, Come on!” World Cup Soccer song. During the last World Cup my kids were dying to do something soccer like in every lesson – so I wrote it for them. It is the easiest song you have ever taught (check out the…

Hi Elissa, Yes one -on -one lessons can sometimes be seen as the toughest as it’s difficult to do much communication, and also the most difficult to give ideas for as it very much depends on your students.  But this is also the strength!  And unlike regular classes it is a prime opportunity to customize…

Christine wrote in asking what to do for a 90 minute lesson.  Here’s my reply! Hi Christine, 90 minutes is a long time! Rather than doing 2 themes back to back, I’d do two halves on the same theme. 1. For the first 45 minutes just do the normal lesson plan. 2. Then give the…

Motivating High School students can sometimes be an uphill task.  Movies, pop music & video games can all be great suggestions, but usually there is way too much English.  What we want is something that’s much simpler, shorter and quick. And these days that would be ….. Twitter! I’ve never seen a good reason to…

As you go through the Genki English curriculum, linking together sentences is one thing to always keep in mind.  For example there is the and….but song or the pink fish game. One idea from Yoko last week for older students was using “found” … 1. Give each kid a piece of paper with either “Who?”,…