I’m sure quite a lot of you will have been lucky enough to find a shiny new flat screen TV in many of your classrooms.  And I’m equally sure many teachers will not know how to use it! So to cure that, let’s show you how to connect your laptop to the TV to get…

I was at an academic presentation this weekend.  I won’t say where just in case anyone is reading, but it was quite good, about testing.  It was full of academic and often technical language. The reaction of the audience was most interesting.  Roughly half of the audience were foreign males. About half were Japanese females….

If you’ve just got a teaching job in Japan you might be surprised to hear your boss telling you to “make sure the kids don’t actually learn any English.” Now this may confuse you a bit – and I know it still freaks me out.  But here’s how they attempt to justify it …. In…

Teachers.tv have this great documentary on a secondary (junior high) school teaching going from “good” to “outstanding”  It’s great to see how she improves and how the outside people help her! Here are a few pick ups: – Good parts were lots of learning & enthusiasm – Need more pair work etc, to give teacher…

I’ve  just picked August’s winner of the comment competition.  And the winner is …  Buket! Buket, you win a Genki English CD or CD Download of your choice (or Genki Relax, Hip Hop or Genki Japan packs) The September competition is now open so get commenting (even on past posts is OK as long as you post it…

Here’s yet another really cool game from Mido Farid!  This time it’s a really simple vocab review game. Divide the class into two groups. Ask the first student from each group to come to the middle of the class Ask them to stand back to back Then ask the two student to close their eyes….