Over on the members forum we’re beta testing a new Pronouns/Be Verb song which also links in with yesterday’s “Be Verb Game” I’ve been working on a few ideas for minicards to represent the pronouns and I think this is the best way to do it, with “I am”, “She is” etc. on the cards…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/pronouns-minicards/
School starts at 7 AM here. Kids start arriving at 6. School finished at 5PM. One advantage of not having Playstations at home I guess. Showers were cool, one teacher has to pump the water using a “stairmaster” like machine whilst the other teacher gets a shower! They called it “natural temperature” water. I called…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/cambodia-school-day/
As we were late it was straight into a 1.5 hour intro workshop. The teachers were happy and smily and the building, built by Pepy, was perfect. We even had power from the solar cells on the roof, again another prize from Pepy. The big challenge though was with the teachers’ attitude. The first thing…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/cambodia-what-do-you-need/
One of the things that kept coming up last week was an objection to the games because the classrooms were so packed. But as you saw in the videos for most of the schools it was a bit of an excuse. However today we had so many kids packed in one tiny room! Just looking…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/people-are-the-key/
I went to this school before, it’s the one covered in flies that I compared to Pompeii, not in its heighday, but how it looks now. Here’s the street it’s in: And I found out why there are flies everywhere, this is the building that joins the school building: Apparently the school used to be…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/poverty-to-success/
In India we’ve also put small computer rooms in all the schools. There is a very famous ICT professor in charge, but we went in today and it was chaos. With no teachers allowed to supervise, the kids were watching Tom & Jerry or playing GT Rally, some computers had the fronts bashed in (they…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/bad-computers-lots-of-books/
