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…

Today was very topsy turvey. This morning started out with a show for the kids in the city sponsored kids club. Every Saturday the kids meet for English classes taught by members of the community. If all the primary school teachers in town were doing their jobs, I guess the city wouldn’t need this club,…

These second time schools are something special. Last time I did the basic show here in November, and today I figured on doing something a bit more challenging, so after the usual warm ups, we went through “What do you do?“. That was amazing, the whole school, 6th graders included, were just enthralled by it….