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…

Those of you who attended my Summer workshops might remember the “top secret” meetings I was having with one of the NHK (the Japanese equivalent of the BBC I guess) production companies about a Genki English TV series next year. The plan was to have one of the weekly 20 minute shows for adults based…

As you know I spend a lot of time on my computer.  With all the dust in India and Cambodia, it has been getting slower and slower, which means it’s  been taking me longer and longer to get things out to you. So with Windows 7 out last week I figured I’d pop along to…