UPDATE: All the workshops mentioned in this article have now finished – thank you to everyone who came! To find out where I’ll be next, check out the schedule page here. ================================= Thank you to everyone who came to today’s full day 6 hour workshop in Nagoya! After 100 people yesterday (which I’ll blog…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/genki-in-nagoya-akita-details/
It’s forty years today since we first set foot on the Moon. 40 years. But what have we done since? When I was doing my undergraduate degree, using a NASA satellite to study an Active Galactic Nuclei, I thought man landing on the moon was the most important thing we’d ever done. If aliens came…
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Here are a few of the other great ideas that the teachers came up with at the Fukuoka ACET meeting the other day. Their next meeting is in September, be sure to pop along if you are in town! Othello Phonics I have to admit I still don’t quite get the rules of Othello yet,…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/the-aliens-are-coming/
The British Council have just issued a press release about how Genki English has not only been distributed to every primary school in Thailand, but that from this year Genki English is now part of the official teaching materials for all primary schools in the country. It’s been quite an amazing ride getting this far!…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/british-council-press-release-genki-english-now-part-of-thailands-official-teaching-materials/
I think most of us know the power of using puppets or dolls as an “excuse” for really shy kids to get a touch of confidence. Shyness just means “the degree to which you can communicate” and is of course the thing we have to help shy students overcome. Using puppets for every kid in…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/sponge-talk/
Wow, I can’t believe how much stuff I’ve got done over the last couple of days, lots of exciting new things coming up! Today was newsletter day. The game of the month is a very cool way of combing lots of different themes together to come up with things like “Can Baby Monkey eat noodles?”…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/really-big-mega-review-big-surprise/
