Author Archives: Richard Graham

Presentation at JALT and it’s not 1997!

I bumped into Tom Merner a few weeks ago and he told me that he had decided to put my presentation on first thing on Sunday as I was the only person who could get everyone awake!! Which upon seeing a room full of partially hung over, and generally very tired looking faces seemed to…

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Off to JALT!

The national JALT conference is the biggest language teaching conference in Japan, and probably one of the biggest in the World. There are all the big names there and loads and loads of publishers and teachers. I also have a presentation tomorrow. I had planned to get up early and spend most of the day…

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More Music Days

I got some really cool stuff done for the new adults CD. The cool thing is that I can just write the songs and get them recorded straight away, as I don’t have to do all the testing and stuff that’s needed for the GE CDs. A couple of the songs I needed to dictate,…

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Music Days

Basically everything at the top of my “To Do” list is at the moment is music work! Which is quite nice. The great thing is that I can just play through whatever types of stuff I want and I can pretty much use anything. If it’s happy and bright it’ll go on the new phonics…

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Music Stuff

Had two days to work on the new music stuff I’ve got going!

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8 hours to Kyushu + OK!

I got picked up at 9 o’clock by one of the school’s teachers to take me to train station. He was telling me how his daughter was going round the house this morning saying “Dekiru, Dekiru, Dekiru!”. Nice. So then the 8 hours back to Kyushu, which was actually not too bad. I hadn’t been…

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