As we have very, very tight budgets in the India schools, the traditional “Doctor Doctor” game (e.g. here’s the Funky Mummy version) can’t be used as we need to make the games use as few materials as possible and if possible zero materials. So here’s the Simply Doctor Doctor Game: 1.One child comes to the…
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Photo by dominikkustra Today is “Respect for the Aged” ( ๆฌ่ใฎๆฅ keirou no hi) public holiday in Japan. “Silver” English lessons, as they are politely called here, are hugely popular. With one million people expected to be over hundred by 2050 they’re going to get even more popular. So what do you teach older students?…
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I’ve got a free eBook for you today. (eBooks are basically “pdf” files you can read on your computer or print out as nicely formatted A4 pages). The first is of Top 10 Games from the Genki English site. It’s free when you subscribe to the email version of this blog (don’t worry you can…
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Although I recommend charades (or “gesture game”) for What are you doing? or What do you want to do? (members bonus theme) I’ve never found a way of doing it that I was totally happy with. In one of the workshops this week I think I might have found it: 1. Put the kids in…
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In yesterday’s newsletter I introduced the new Genki English “One Left” Card Games. Just like the famous game Uno, they are based on the traditional Crazy Eights game and work great in mid to high level classes. Here’s another one for you today, for teaching weather and countries. Simply teach the two lessons as usual…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/weather-countries-card-game/
Stephanie wrote in asking how I got the live weather reports on the “What’s / How’s the weather in …?” game. The live widget I used is from weather.com and it’s called “Weather on your website”. If you don’t have your own site and want to choose different countries, ask the computer teacher, they might…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/weather-game/
