Just a quick word to say a very big thank you to everyone in Spain, France, Italy, China, Korea, the Czech Republic, the USA, Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Thailand, Turkey and Poland who ordered the CD Sets last month. You’ve made November the biggest ever month for international orders, even bigger than the back to school…

I’ve been working away on some new Genki English worksheets, but the first ones to pop out are actually Katakana Worksheets for the Genki Japan site. Each one has plenty of space to practice each letter and a really clear diagram to explain the stroke order. Plus they look really good! If you are learning…

I was in Costco today and noticed that the new Michel Thomas courses are out for Mandarin Chinese, Arabic and Russian. Very exciting! Now I haven’t tried these courses yet, as they are brand new, but if they are even half has good as the original German, French, Italian and Spanish courses then they could…

We’re always told to base lessons on what the kids are interested in, but if you don’t know the class it’s pretty difficult to know what they’ll want to do. Plus although there are loads of ideas out there, it can sometimes seem a little “samey” when you’re just looking at lists and lists of…

It’s newsletter day again today. This month’s game is What’s Left? which is great for the end of the lesson or to check how much English the kids have mastered. You can use it for any theme, but seeing as it’s the December edition of the newsletter I went with What would you like for…

Roger has sent in two new Word Searches for you. One is “Breakfast” (to go with CD7’s What would you like for breakfast? theme) and the other is “Rooms of the House” ( to go with CD7’s Where is Baby Monkey? theme). You can find both of them along with Roger’s very nice collection of…