If you’re teaching the alphabet to first year junior high or elementary school kids, here are some new free phonics worksheets for you. I’ve lost count of how many people have emailed me saying there is a mistake on the “odd-one-out” phonics worksheets because “volleyball” is on the “b” worksheet. Of course, that’s the odd-one-out!…

I’ve just put a couple of new “Teaching Guide Videos” on the site. One for Do you like…?, one for the adjectives song & my favourite song for getting older kids genki, Where are you going?. They don’t feature any kids, but just show you the actions, gestures etc. for when you teach the song….

　 I haven’t had a day off for a while, plus my net connection was down for a couple of days so I had time to visit Pompei & Vesuvius this week. Both are really good. You can walk right up to the volcano cone in Vesuvius and Pompei is just huge. Mind you I…

Although it might seem like I was a quite harsh on the “Eigo Notebook” the other day (and I’ve been told that the latest version is quite different from the one they published on Friday), there are actually some really good ideas in there. One of them is to combine Days of the Week with…

If you’re just starting a new term, new class or even school year, here are a couple of articles I wrote last year that may help with some ideas: First lesson of the year, if you speak the lingo First Lesson when you don’t speak the lingo First Lesson in Junior High School If you…

The Ministry of Education (MEXT) only has information in Japanese about their new curriculum and “English notebook”. So I figured I’d better translate it into English for ALTs who can’t read Japanese: MEXT “English Notebook” curriculum in English Overall it’s not as bad as many of us feared and at first glance it looks quite…