Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past few years you must have heard about the huge success of the “Rock Band” video games. You basically hit coloured instruments in time to pre-recorded music. But they are massive, massive hits with “kids” of all ages. The Beatles even have their own version! So the…

Thought you might like to see this video of where I was on Saturday night!  Pretty cool eh?  If you’re near Tokyo Tower in the next couple of days, be sure to pop along to the Tourism New Zealand Rugby Ball, they have the most amazing show inside! And here’s the people that invited me,…

Now that Halloween is out of the way, it’s time for some new Christmas materials. First off we have some super cute Baby Monkey pictures to go with the “What colour is Christmas song?” What do you think?

UPDATE:  This has now passed, great to see everyone!  For my next trip to Tokyo, see the schedule page! Just on the plane to Tokyo. I’ll be around for about an hour at the ETJ expo lunchtime Saturday then at the Tourism New Zealand event at Tokyo Tower in the evening. Be sure to pop…

Flossy has just put up another great video with a funky game to go with the “Skeleton Soup” song and worksheet (If you’re reading the email version with no video, try the online blog) Plus November 1st is the cut off date for registering for the Vienna workshop.  We’ve got people coming from half a…

There’s a great discussion on the forum about testing and joining phrases together. I find the easiest way to do this is to start off with simply adding “And” and “But” to the How are you? song. The kids find it amazing that they can come out with huge long pieces of English like “I’m hungry and…