I had a request the other week for activities to teach “Whose … is this?”. I’ve never found anything that just clicked with this theme, until I came across the simplest of simple ideas on the net the other day: http://www.sendaiedu.com/stopthiefpossessives It’s a really simple idea… 1. Go round the class and collect something from…

I got this feedback form in my email this morning: “This program is really amazing, I have to say thank you so much to give me or show me how to help my kids to learn english so fast ……they love me and their parents said that their kids love English too. Love, Yarlin” Thank…

Here are a few of the teachers’ questions I’ve had over the last couple of days with excerpts from my answers that you might find useful. Richard asked about 6th graders: … here’s an article you might want to have a look at https://genkienglish.net/6thgraders.htm … Flavia asked about a demo class for numbers, colours and…

Every month I have an article in ALC’s “Kodomo Eigo” magazine and they’ve just given me permission to put the English version online for free. The basic idea is that I take some of the strange or annoying English that is often taught in Japanese schools and try and make it sound a little cooler…

The Genki English Teacher Training Video has become a bit of a life saver for people doing elementary workshops in Japan. You simply pop on the video and in an hour you have a room full of teachers who are now confident and have a much better idea of how to go about things. It’s…

There is a whole page of Junior High games on the site and the Planet Eigo (games, ideas & theory) & Textbook Trail (lesson plans and worksheets) books are really popular. But one thing I’ve always wanted to do was to have a list of each chapter in the Junior High Textbooks and have a…