I get lots of request for new things for the site, and also lots of “thank you”s for having Japanese translations. But strangely enough I’ve never had any requests for Japanese translations of any readers’ games. That’s always surprised me. I’m sure they’d really help with lesson planning and Japanese teachers are always asking for…

I was supposed to get all this on the site yesterday, but hopefully today is not too late to catch the big Japan vs. Brazil game tomorrow night! First up we have a funky MP3 download of the new Genki English World Cup Song. It’s a really great warm up, and has lots of useful…

One of the things I always try to do when teaching is to make the subject alive, to take it out of the realm of just being in the classroom by bringing in the things kids are interested in from the outside world. With all the hype that surrounds them, Hollywood movies make an obvious…

I was looking through my inbox today to try and get up to date with all my emails, when I came across a load of Readers’ Games that I hadn’t put up on the site yet. So you now have Gemma Fishers’ “Doraemon & Dorami Game” ( He, She, etc.) & Josh Katz’ “Mario Tracer…

After trying to find good websites to learn Chinese and being so fed up with everything being soooo boring, I decided to take the karma approach to stuff and put some more learning Japanese stuff out there first. So I basically took two of the games from the CD1 Remix, flipped them into Japanese and…

Have you been watching the snowboarding? Pretty good stuff. One great game for the Olympics is to everyday print out the medals table in English from the Torino website. Then… Give each group a copy. Ask a question, such as “How many medals does Finland have?” The quickest team to answer is the winner. Draw…