It’s forty years today since we first set foot on the Moon. 40 years. But what have we done since? When I was doing my undergraduate degree, using a NASA satellite to study an Active Galactic Nuclei, I thought man landing on the moon was the most important thing we’d ever done. If aliens came…

A bit of Monday fun from Flossy, can you guess who it is?

I wasn’t expecting to be here today, but the chance came up so I took it! If your students want to come here then I can highly recommend my friend’s “ryugaku” company.  She’s been doing fantastic trips for high school students and “oyako ryugaku” (where the parent studies English during the day whilst the child…

Here are a few of the other great ideas that the teachers came up with at the Fukuoka ACET meeting the other day. Their next meeting is in September, be sure to pop along if you are in town! Othello Phonics I have to admit I still don’t quite get the rules of Othello yet,…

The Under the Sea theme is becoming a bit of a Summer tradition. I popped along to the Fukuoka ACET teachers meeting yesterday where they had a ton of great ideas… Make some fake seaweed. Quickly flash picture cards behind the the seaweed and ask the kids what they can see! Use Google images to…