Today we had a private full day workshop for a new set of schools in Tokyo. The cool thing was that the participants were all creative professionals (we had a professional singer, dancer, orchestral percussionist and 2 movie producers!) who are going to be using their talents alongside the Genki English curriculum for premium style English…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/creative-questions-from-tokyo-teachers/
Tatiana has just sent in this great game from Russia: I’d like to share with you and other teachers one game for children. In Russia we call it “Hot Potato” and usually play in Russian. However when I started teaching English, I tried to play it in English- and my students love it. I’m sure…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/hot-potatoes-from-russia/
Here’s another review game from Mido Farid. This time we save the Titanic! SUMMARY The Titanic is sinking. Two or more teams try to get all their people off the ship before it goes down. SETUP 1. Draw a picture like the one above on the board. 2. You can draw as many figures in the ship…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/save-the-titanic/
It’s coming up to the end of year, where kids probably want to have a bit of fun and do something special. Here’s what Margit has been doing, it sounds like a fantastic end to the year! This week I used the digital whiteboard with 12 classes, 5+6grade. As with 36 kids the room is…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/end-of-year-review/
Update: 2014 version is here Always a welcome gift, here’s the 2010 Genki English Calendar to bring a rainbow of colours to your classroom. Of course the 2009 one is still online just in case you need it! Plus there are more luxury Christmas worksheets with Christmas Colours Snakes & Ladders, black and white Snowman mini cards and Christmas Colours…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/2010-genki-calendar-you-requests-more-xmas-worksheets/
This has to be one of my favourite themes, it is so easy to do and is so, so useful: CD9‘s “I, you, he, she, we” pronouns song Check out the gestures in the video below: Doing the gestures in the video means you can teach it in just a few minutes, then try the “Dinosaur Danger”…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/esl-pronouns-song-in-video/
