I’ve just uploaded 3 new Learn Chinese games for you: I’ve basically done them out of desperation at not finding any fun materials to learn Chinese myself! Even the hallowed Michel Thomas course has been sending me to sleep with the advanced Mandarin. Update: I just figured out that because I bought the ebook version…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/genki-chinese-games/
Today was the first of 2 days follow up teacher training from the week’s training we did in December. Half is me for the listening and speaking and half is the phonics programme for reading and writing. After another address to the school assembly (where the kids had just been doing their morning exercises!) and…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/cd9-games-in-action/
There are so many cool videos of games being put up on the members‘ forum at the moment. This is another one from Flossy on how to build a Baby Monkey board game to go with the rooms of the house theme. At first you are thinking “well that looks a bit simple” but watch…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/baby-monkey-board-game/
I’ve just uploaded another series of games to the Learn Spanish site. It’s proving very popular with kids especially in the States. If you don’t use the Genki English computer games in class or for homework yet, have a try of Spanish versions yourself to see how they work. But BE WARNED: you’ll soon be…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/animals-game/
Nigel has sent in a great game based on the Pink Fish game that perfectly links “What do you do?“with “What do you want to be?” 1. Put several jobs picture cards, face down, at one side of the room. 2. Put another set of cards on the other side of the room, again face…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/i-want-to-be-game-new-photo-cards/
One of the specific questions today was how to teach grammar. I got this a lot in India as well. The thing with Genki English is that you don’t explicitly teach grammar. The kids learn it from context. This is a much better way than the traditional “identify the nouns in this sentence” approach which…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/be-verb-i-am-you-are-game/
