So, I’m looking for a teacher (English school), using Genki English  for a 1st year elementary student (6 years old) in Japan.  She has been joining my regular classes since last Summer and has to move now to Shizuoka prefecture 葵区、大岩 (Aoiku Ooiwa).  She has all the CDs from GE and as she might move…

UPDATE:   This course is now completed and you can find the finished version over on the Phonics page! Today we have more pages for the hugely popular Phonics Workbook. This time going right up to cover th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air and er.   Depending on…

I’ve had requests from a few teachers for versions of the picture cards without any words on them. The idea being to stop kids who haven’t done English phonics yet trying to read the words with their own language’s reading system and hence messing up the pronunciation. Luckily Gaz has just re-done the whole set…

Yesterday’s blog post certainly stirred up a hornet’s nest. Yes it was an April Fools. I thought I added enough clues and links in the message, but I guess my current mood (my eyes are still horrible) didn’t make it a very positive one this year. I apologise. Having said that, the wholesale cancellation of…

Although school starts next week, the new academic year begins in Japan today. The press were full of this story this morning! “In an almost 180 degree u-turn from the position just one year ago, the Japanese government today decided to cancel its program of introducing English education in elementary schools. “Starting this academic year, April…