Author Archives: Richard Graham

Countries Card Game

The animals card game has been a huge hit with the kids (just make sure you stick to the original rules though!). One of the side effects is that you end up learning a whole load of facts, because that’s how you get good at the game. Mind you in the animals game it’s not…

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Do you like strange foods?

As promised, here are some cards of “strange foods”. You can use them with the Do you like..? theme to easily introduce “Yes, I do!” and “No, I don’t!”. The cards were designed for Japanese kids, and although all the kids get a reaction, in some classes they actually like the weird stuff, and in…

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Nagasaki – Favourite 5th graders

The teachers at this school were so good in Summer that I promised to pop back in term time to do some demo classes for their kids. The teachers were already aiming high and I wanted to see just how good the kids could get. Obviously this is a fantastic school ( even though it’s…

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Fukuoka CD7 party!

I usually do the launch of a new CD at the Maruzen book store in Fukuoka, but this year decided to do it as part of the ACET teachers group as they have always been so good to me. Usually it’s a very relaxed vibe, but today we had lots of new teachers who were…

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Eikaiwa Class + JHS

Today I was asked to help out at a teacher’s “eikaiwa” or private English class. I usually don’t do these types of classes ( please don’t write in asking me to visit one – I just don’t have the time!), but the teacher today has been really helpful and as I was in town I…

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What do you think of easy bugs?

At the moment I’m working on a couple of “easy to teach” remixes for you. One is for CD5’s “What do you think of …?” and the other is “Creepy Crawlies“. If you’d like to try them out in your class or would like to send in some feedback, you can find them as free…

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