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…

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…

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…

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“(…

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…

The worksheet I put up the other week for the “Where’s the …?” hip hop track has proved really popular since I’ve started demoing it in workshops. Originally the songs were intended for learners to listen to on their ipods, but it seems lots of teachers are having great success with using them in normal…