Just in case you’ve not noticed ( how could you not have?), the Pokemon are back! The “Diamond” and “Pearl” editions for the Nintendo DS are sold out just about everywhere, and nearly everyone is Wi-Fi ing around trying to swap new monsters. I guess it’s time to dig up all those old Pokemon lesson…

There’s a new site in town for free flashcards. www.eslflashcards.com It’s simply another clipart set of pictures formatted up as cards, but you might find something useful there ( for example plural foods!).

Over the Summer a really great group of teachers got together on a special Japanese forum and very kindly translated nearly all of the 100 or so Reader’s Games on the site. Today I got the last 40 of them up on the site and ready to go. If you’re an ALT, simply print out…

Sorry if you were expecting more picture books today, I sort of got a little sidetracked… At some point I’m going to have to think about adding audio to the books. Narration is quite easy, but one of the reasons the Kids English books worked so well was that each page had its own music…

I’m on a bit of a roll with these picture books at the moment, have a look for new “How old are you?”, “Let’s build a house”, “How did you get here?” books. (CD Owners‘ Username required. When you make a comment, you’ll need to register again, but make sure you create a new &…

The Halloween Picture Book has been a huge success this week. So in the spirit of “things are better out there rather than stuck on my hard drive” I’m putting up lots of the new picture books in the “Discussion & Genki Community” section of the forum. A few of them are still in the…