Author Archives: Richard Graham

Nagasaki & Trees in the road

Nagasaki seems to have more history than any other city in Japan, from all sorts of eras. From being the 2nd ( and hopefully last ) city to be nuclear bombed, to having some of the first Christian missionary’s – who were then crucified, and being the only place allowed contact with foreigners when Japan…

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People are so nice

I’m a firm believer in being nice to people, what’s to be gained by being nasty? Luckily most people are the same. Unfortunately on the internet some people aren’t and experiments like making the Discussion Board open to anyone didn’t really work! It’s also true that “it’s the squeaky wheel that gets cleaned” and I…

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New Greetings Pics

Along with the new pictures for “I’m thirsty” and the adjectives song (Part 1 & Part 2), I also updated the greetings pictures for the Good Morning song when I remixed CD volume 3 in the Spring. Today I put them on the site, along with some nice new mini cards. I never actually use…

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Do you like dog?

I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve seen that question on school lesson plans or actually being taught by Japanese teachers! It’s not the most serious mistake in the world, but doesn’t sound very cool, and you wouldn’t get away with teaching 7 + 2 = 8 in maths, so why allow it…

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Dinosaur Survival

The blog’s been a bit quiet this week, I’ve been busy working on new stuff ( see later in the week!) For today here are some great new games that have been sent in: “Model my Body” ( JHS body parts) “Dinosaur Survival” ( directions ) “King of the Hill” ( review) “Tug of War“(…

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Kagoshima

If you happened to live in Kagoshima ( or anywhere within an hour or two’s travel), today’s JALT Conference was certainly worthwhile. Although some of the workshops were a little dubious ( fruit basket!), some of them were really good and there were so many of them! Unfortunately two of the ones I wanted to…

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