There’s already a video of “How to teach Genki English: the basics” online, but quite a few teachers have asked to see how everything works in an actual class. So that’s what today’s video is, the first ten minutes of my standard first class.

If you like it, please give it some good marks at YouTube and I’ll see about making some more.

I must have taught this lesson a million times so it is very well practised and very dense with regards motivation talking etc. but of course when I first started out my lessons were nowhere near as smooth, so please don’t let the video scare you!

(If you need want to brush up your Japanese, have a look at my Classroom Japanese page.)

Hopefully you’ll get some ideas and see how good even beginner students can be with a little motivation and music thrown in there.

It’s of a small school where I taught all the grades together. They have had a few lessons before, but the Rock, Paper, Scissors song was their first time.

It starts off part way through my warm up,
Then Genki English Rule 1: Think you can and you can!
Then intro of Rock, Paper, Scissors i.e. each word twice and then once through the mini-lesson on the software part of CD4. As you can see the kids pretty much got it just from this.
Then Genki English Rule 2: Losing just means “try again!”
Then another couple of goes through the song very fast.
Then the song itself.

Altogether it’s 10 minutes. You’ll see how much Japanese I use and how much emphasis is put on motivation talk. These were really good kids, but their speed was about the same as most good classes.

The song is from Genki English CD vol.4: https://genkienglish.net/cd4.htm and there is a thread about this video on the forum.

As I said, if you like the video, please do give it some good marks at YouTube and I’ll see about making some more!