I originally wrote this message on Monday, but now we have comments enabled I figured it would be great to hear your top 3 most fun lessons as well.  They don’t just have to be Genki English, feel free to link to other materials if you like! To start things off, here are my top…

Ishikawa, Japan As I mentioned yesterday I was a bit wary of today. They invited the local ALTs to do crafts and activities with the kids calling it an “international day”. It was all funded because they are one of the English pilot schools for this year. The reason I’m wary is that very often…

Akita, Japan Some people have been wondering why I put “snails” as the first animal in the new “I like animals” song. Surely something more exciting would be better first? Well, if you saw the kids’ almost cinematic reaction to it this morning you’d have seen exactly why snails are the best! What you do…

Tokushima, Anan. I often get people saying “How come when you do workshops the teachers answer your questions and actually join in? In my workshops they just sit there nodding even if they don’t understand, hate to make mistakes, they never ask questions and some of them even sleep”. Well, that’s what’s taken me 10…

The teachers did so well yesterday that I started taking some videos today. Here are the first ones, purely by chance mostly to do with the Under the Sea theme! Under the Sea Sticky Fingers Game Nemo Game How much?