. You wouldn’t have a student learning guitar without a guitar at home. That’d be crazy, right? 🎸❌ And it’s just the same with teaching English. When students don’t have the chance to learn and practice the language at home, they come to class unprepared, and you end up spending most of your time…

Hello, This week I’m at the huge (2,500 teachers!) IATEFL conference in Harrogate, England. A lot of the presentations here are about English in developing countries where of course resources are hard to come by. So just for this week, I’ve opened up more of the lesson plans and classroom games & phonics for everyone…

I wrote this up for the Facebook live today and didn’t get to use it, so I thought I’d add it here.   I’ll cover: How to get lots of example sentences, so you can jump from conscious competence to unconscious competence with grammar. How you can personalise content for each individual student according to…

Hey, Amazing English Teacher! You know, I’ve been hearing from countless teachers like yourself, all struggling with the same problem: teaching grammar to older kids! And let’s face it, who can blame them? Most of the example sentences out there are so monotonous, they could put a caffeinated squirrel to sleep. ☕️ 🐿️ 💤 But…

Hello, Lots of you were really interested in the Flipped Classroom idea last week. And …. also lots of you had lots & lots of questions and fears about how it works or not. The biggest fear was ….. 🙀  “Parents want fluent kids but don’t have time to (or just won’t) help at home”…

As an awesome teacher, you’re already rocking it with Genki English, but what about keeping your adult and teen students engaged and excited about practicing their English speaking? That’s where today’s news comes in! 😉 Introducing our game-changing PDF guide, “100 Conversation Starters for ESL Rockstars!” This amazing resource is the perfect complement to your…