It seems that every day this and last week I’ve been meeting with school chains asking about putting Genki English in their classes. Judging by how classes are taught here (holding up flashcards, getting bored, falling asleep!) and how different Genki English is, I think it could be really huge here. Most of the places…
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The government in Japan have just decided to give a brand new digital whiteboard (although they call them ι»ει»ζΏγelectronic blackboards) to every elementary and junior high school for free. Well, with our tax money anyway! There’s a fair chance that when they arrive they’ll just get put in store cupboards and never used.Β So tell…
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The latest version of the Genki English Manual is out! i.e. the big printable book of lesson plans for each theme. If you’re wanting help to get your head around all the Genki English themes then it will certainly help to print it out and have a look through. I was hoping to spend a…
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This part two of my Beijing workshops. See yesterday for part 1! High Level Phonics This afternoon was going through the much more advanced parts of the phonics course. They start off with individual sounds, then move on to alternative ways of writing them e.g. ai, ay a…e etc. Then it moves onto some of…
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Although I’ve been getting reports and feedback from the management, it’s the real, honest, feedback from the teachers I really need. Both to find out what needs changing in the current materials and how to best present the future materials and to select which future activities to give them for each theme. As we, the…
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We were walked into the school today by another marching band procession, they really do like these big welcomes! Then we were doing evaluation sessions, watching and commenting on two Genki English and two phonics lessons by two teachers who we’d trained in December. As expected they were really, really good! As they were so…
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