Edijs Petersons, Liga Landiša and Charles Goodger
On Monday 19th July Charles Goodger visited Dzīvesprieks, the vocational institute for Latvian orphans 100 miles west of Riga, Latvia. FunSongs started assisting the charity-funded organization earlier through a project with the European Autocross Championships Autokrosa held in Bauska, Latvia in June. Charles also helped to organize a well attended [...]
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FunSongs and Dzīvesprieks video project
Posted on July 20th, 2010 by CharlesEcole Française in Riga completes FunSongs course
Posted on July 6th, 2010 by CharlesIn October 2009 , Riga’s leading French school for kids, Ecole Française invited Charles Goodger to handle the English course for its young learners aged from 4 to 8. Every Wednesday FunSongs sent a mother-tongue teacher to the school to teach the children English using the FunSongs Method. Parents and school administrators were fully satisfied with [...]
CAIL English Weeks in Italy
Posted on July 6th, 2010 by CharlesFor the fourth summer, FunSongs English Weeks have provided young Italian learners of English the chance to continue their studies after the end of the school year but in a fun and creative way. All courses use the FunSongs Method learning English. Check out www.cail.it for details.
FunSongs Teachers page on facebook!
Posted on June 20th, 2010 by CharlesClick on www.facebook.com and in the SEARCH tab write FunSongs Teachers. Keep up to date with tweets, updates and blog posts about FunSongs and FunSongs Shows.
First Russian-English Monster Show!
Posted on May 26th, 2010 by CharlesYoung learners’ first experience of native English
On Thursday May 20th, School 239 in Ilkustes iela Riga hosted the first ever FunSongs Monster Show in Russian and English. In Latvia almost a third of the population speaks Russian and many schools hold courses in the language. Charles Goodger and the actress and singer Vita Balcanaite handled the [...]
FunSongs sponsors Autokrosa in favour of Latvian orphans
Posted on May 22nd, 2010 by CharlesIn January at Burns Night, an annual charity event organized by the British Chamber of Commerce in Latvia, Charles Goodger bid to sponsor the European Autocross Championships on behalf of the charity Livslust (http://livslust.com) and his generous bid won. In return FunSongs will have the opportunity to promote its educational services at the sports event – further details [...]
The power of action songs!
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by CharlesThe FunSongs Kids on stage in Riga
As part of Europas Dienas on May 9th FunSongs was invited by the British Embassy to hold workshops for young kids learning English. Riga City Council who organised the event also hosted the newly formed FunSongs Kids choir on stage. It performed three songs: Time to Play, Best for the [...]
Charles Goodger on Front Cover of CATS
Posted on May 6th, 2010 by CharlesFront cover of the IATEFL publication
CATS for teachers of Young Learners
The founder of FunSongs Charles Goodger appears on the front cover of the magazine CATS. This specialist publication is for members of the worldwide IATEFL Young Learners Special Interest Group and comes out twice a year. Each issue focuses on a particular aspect of teaching. The [...]
Charles Goodger at IATEFL 2010
Posted on April 18th, 2010 by CharlesAccompanied by his assistant Stephanie Laake, Charles Goodger went to Harrogate, England for the annual IATEFL conference from 7th to 11th April 2010. On Thursday April 8th Charles gave his workshop entitled “FunSongs: Exploiting the relationship between music and language” to a crowd of primary school teachers and teacher trainers from many countries including Turkey [...]
