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Copyright (C) 1999/2023 by Richard Graham www.GenkiEnglish.com
Hello!
There's been lots happening with the homepage this month!
First off, you may have noticed that the page design has
changed. Hopefully this new layout will make it easier
for you to find your way around the page, and make it
quicker to load, especially on machines in different
countries.
Speaking of which, I have been looking at the logs for
the site, and was surprised to say the least! In the last
3 weeks, I have had over 600 hundred individual visitors
to the site, from over 20 countries, including Italy,
Brazil, Ukraine, Mexico, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Thailand, Lebanon and Paraguay!! That is quite amazing.
Thank you very much everybody for visiting my site!
Thank you also for the great response to the songs I put
up last month. I'm glad they were of so much use to you.
As expected, quite a few people found it quite tricky to
use the MP3s in class. Therefore I'm looking at getting
some CDs made. Hopefully these should be available next
month - please contact me if you're interested!
Pronunciation Guides
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This month I've been working on putting Shockwave
animations on the page. With these pages, you can simply
move your mouse over a word and hear it spoken! These are
great for non-native speakers to use in class. You simply
take your computer along, connect it to a hi-fi or
something and play the words. When the kids hear them
they simply do the actions, it's really fun!
If you are a native speaker, then using these pages in
class is a really good way to get your kids to hear and
get used to accents from different countries!
The first two are on line now: What's
your name?, and Stand up, Sit
down.
New Games
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This month's two new games are from Will. They are the Lines Quiz and Stopwatch!
The lines quiz is a really good
warm up lesson, perfect for practicing any conversation
piece or vocab. It's also a good for classes that aren't
too lively. In this game if they don't speak, they have
to go round again!
Stopwatch is a really cool
game that I've been using in most of my lessons over the
past few weeks! It's really good in either small or large
classes (lots of people have been asking for games to use
in small groups!). I've used it for everything from 1st
year elementary to adults! Brilliant!
So there you go! I hope there's enough material here to
keep your lessons fun and "genki" for the next
few weeks!! Here in Japan we're just about entering the
Spring season, where all the kids move up a grade and the
Cherry Blossoms begin to bloom!
Sees you all next month,
Be genki,
Richard
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Richard J. Graham
Primary School English Games, Songs and Activities
Email:richard.j.graham@iname.com
Previous Newsletters:
February/March 2000 Newsletter
January/February 2000 Newsletter
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