On Saturday the 25th of November ( that’s this Saturday!) I’ll be having 3 workshops in Korea. One in the morning for Korean kindergarten teachers ( very basic songs + games), one for elementary school teachers in the afternoon ( more detailed games, songs) and then a CALL workshop on using Genki English and computers…

Just to continue the Christmas games theme… The weather clap clap game is a great way to practice any theme that has a question + answer approach. But for the Genki Christmas theme there isn’t a question! So instead try chanting “Christmas, Christmas, ho, ho, ho!”, then everyone mimes ( and says ) either the…

There aren’t that many ideas for teaching “clothes” on the site at the moment, so how about this Christmas variation… First of all put several oversized Santa outfits ( from the 100 yen store!) at one end of the room 1. Put the kids in teams. 2. Everyone asks “What’s he wearing?” 3. You shout…

I popped along to the joint meeting of ACET and ETJ in Fukuoka today. There was a big bunch of teachers who had some great ideas. Two of the teachers had planned to do the “What would you like for Christmas?” theme. It was great to see it work so well, and go so smoothly….

Cor, it was a bit chilly yesterday, wasn’t it?. To warm you up a bit here’s the quiz version of the Dream Holiday song. This song sounds quite slow when you listen to it, but it’s actually one of the faster quizzes. As with the other podcast songs it’s designed to be a conversation starter…

What to do when you have 50, 70 or 100s of kids in a class? After last weeks disaster, I figured it would be good to go through and figure out what games do indeed work with super big groups. I wrote an article about teaching big groups in China a while back, but here…