A lot of people are really shocked when they see how many amazing free materials we have over on the Genki Christmas page. The printables are VIP only, but the free items include so many Christmas games and also some of the best Genki Christmas songs! Try them out in your class and you’ll very…

Genki English is a lot like lego.   In each lesson you get a set of blocks (phrases & words) that you can join together (the questions & answers) in new ways. For example in “How are you?” you learn the block (or “chunk”) “I’m” + a whole host of emotion words. Then in the Pronouns…

All the Genki Christmas songs are perfect for online or offline Christmas events. And you can of course go totally crazy with the props and everything – just check out what Nami‘s students have been doing first with Let’s build a snowman …..   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by 豊田市の英語教室…

You can’t be angry and grateful at the same time.   And you can’t be bored and grateful at the same time either. So Thanksgiving isn’t just for the American holiday, it’s a powerful tool you can use any time of year. 😃 Use it anytime you need to make your kids happy! You can find…

With it being feedback week this week we’re already getting the first feedback videos done!   (Remember you can ask for “softly, softly” or “tell it like it is” feedback depending on your own confidence level 🙂 ) And from previous years there are a “Big 5” list of things that teachers very often don’t…

Once you get the hang of teaching English it can be lots of fun and really quite easy to do. However there are always some questions that can niggle away until you get a clear answer. So, after 30 years of teaching around the world, here are the questions I find most teachers ask me…