Monday, 6 October 2025

Make your own game, kiddo!

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Trying to make a game...the lad succeeded but I need to go back to the drawing board slightly! I made this game! Two ways of trying to achie...
Saturday, 4 October 2025

An away day - Cambridge in Nagoya

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I don't recommend insisting on a formal dress code in Aichi/Gifu/Chubu region in the middle of summer - quite likely to have people pass...
Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Postcard from Hakata, Kyushu, Japan

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Hakata ramen I don't usually post 'food porn' pics, but I know Luna students well be jealous again!  Here I am in Hakata, Fukuok...
Monday, 29 September 2025

Saaya's favourite animal is...

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 Check out Saaya, telling her classmates about her favourite animal! Great pic, lovely answers...outcome from an after reading project of he...
Sunday, 28 September 2025

Shizuku's animated Lion - after reading project

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 After reading Crocodile in the House, and a confused robot, Shizuku couldn't wait to talk about her favourite animal, a lion. Lovely dr...
Saturday, 27 September 2025

An away day with Cambridge - Jim on the job in Kyushu

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Fukuoka cadre B1 & B2 Speaking examiners  My apologies for not being 'at work' once or twice recently. I know it looks like I wa...
Thursday, 25 September 2025

Meet Moe's (talking) pet dog!

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  Check out Moe's project from her reading book (OUP's "Read & Imagine" series 'Crocodile in the House'). In t...
Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Postcard from Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan

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View from Otaru Station  A very quick side-trip to the lovely (touristy, usually?) & historic port of Otaru, just west of Sapporo. I was...
Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Postcard from Iwakuni Castle, Yamaguchi Pref., Japan

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This concrete "Moji" recreation of the medieval castle originally built here in 1608, was started in 1962. It was a "Yamajiro...
Monday, 22 September 2025

Haruki's after reading project

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Listen to Haruki being interviewed by his classmate Moe, about his original artwork & description of his favourite animal!..Unusually fo...

Postcard from Omiya, Saitama Pref., Japan

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 Hi everyone at Luna, and fellow trainspotters & "anoraks"! Hokuriku line - Asama I was lucky enough to finally get the train ...
Friday, 19 September 2025

Postcard from Berlin, Germany

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 Dear Jim sensei, It is sunny with clear blue sky in Berlin. This must be the best season to visit here. Not too cold, not too hot...just co...
Thursday, 18 September 2025

Postcard from Kintaikyo, Yamaguchi pref., Japan

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Hi everybody at Luna, Magnificent Kintaikyo Bridge I had a long train journey and I wanted to break it up with a scenic detour - and take an...
Friday, 5 September 2025

The latest update on Anna Delvey

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 Anna Delvey posted some pictures on Instagram. The photos caused her trouble. She’s not scamming anyone, but her latest scandal was made by...
Thursday, 28 August 2025

Big 'scam' by Toyota Shoji

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 When you search the scam happened in Japan, you can see many articles about the scam by Toyota Shoji Co. Ltd. Toyota Shoji engaged in door-...

Postcard from...Bristol, England

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Dear Luna International, I'm studying English in Bristol now. My dormitory is called ....It is okay, bu there are a few problems. My cla...
Wednesday, 27 August 2025

A poet buffeted by war

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 Hiroshi Ota was a Japanese poet and army officer. His life became deeply connected to the tragic story of the Himeyuri Student Corps during...
Wednesday, 20 August 2025

My favorite pet 【U-Pa-Ru-Pa】

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  If someone asked me, “I want to get a pet. Do you have any recommendations?”  I would say, “I recommend a Mexican walking fish!” Do you k...
Tuesday, 19 August 2025

Rina's snow animal - not melting!

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We'd love to know what you think about Rina's after reading creation! Please leave a comment!  
Friday, 15 August 2025

A rabbit talks!

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 Koharu wrote about her favourite animal, and talked about it/recorded herself using an iPad app (chatterpix) - as you can hear, her pronunc...
Saturday, 9 August 2025

A talking platypus

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Check out Minami's unseen platypus project, as an after reading piece for her graded reader (OUP Read & Discover) series. She narrat...
Friday, 8 August 2025

Ten little fingers - maximizing wordwall

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Wordwall keyboard skills When half the class is away, the rest of us will play!  Rather than push ahead and lose classmates, we circled the ...
Thursday, 7 August 2025

Postcard from - readers in China!

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Hello Jim sensei! Yumi & I have been in China factory this week. We've been busy for the meeting everyday. The Chinese that Yumi lea...
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Wednesday, 6 August 2025

Postcard from... Kata Bay, Mie coast, Japan

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A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to explore this lesser travelled road down to the south of Nagoya, south of the Ise Peninsula. I to...
Monday, 4 August 2025

Off to the races - confidence booster

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 How chuffed can a young learner possibly be! Only been teaching this lad a few weeks, but he's hit the Everybody Up Starter learning cu...
Friday, 1 August 2025

Postcard from Oxford, England

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  Hi :) It's already been almost three weeks since I arrived in Oxford! For now, I'm doing well here (though I had been having a sor...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

Jim's weekend on the job - Tokyo

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Delighted to report that I was involved with another training session for Cambridge Assessment English last weekend, as Team Leader for Kawa...

My favorite pets - Bau and Alan

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 I have had two dogs in my life. The first dog my family owned was named "Bau". Her name came from an animation named “Heisei Dog ...
Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Kenshin's platypus project

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Check out Kenshin's description of Australia's very shy platypus (an animal he's never seen( but we read about in an Oxford Read...

Yushin's snow animal

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Check out Yushin's after reading project! How cool is his snow animal (in the middle of summer - we're melting!)  

Postcard from Sydney, Australia

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  Hi everyone at Luna! I arrived in Sydney in the middle of winter, but the weather is beautiful! I stayed near the fabulous Harbour Bridge ...
Tuesday, 29 July 2025

Let's talk! Students with after reading projects

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We think these two young learners really do speak for themselves!   
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Monday, 28 July 2025

Smashing phonics on a desktop!

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 You got the idea straight away... You know your letter sounds, and your homework was great...letter writing is spot on and your pronunciati...
Sunday, 27 July 2025

Hazuki talks about...her chimpanzee

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  Although we do not have chimpanzees native to Japan, we do have loads of monkeys up in the hills, and famously a monkey onsen in Nagano pr...

Milking a glossary with Wordwall

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Making the most out of even the simplest graded readers! Familiar vocabulary recycled in any good graded reader series, but the secret is to...
Friday, 25 July 2025

Project Platypus - creative Kana

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Check out Kana's fantastic artwork! Truly the best artist I think I've ever had in my English classroom...put her mind to Australia...
Thursday, 24 July 2025

Chalk man makes a come back - "This is me!"

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We returned to old school project work recently, breaking out the chalk to add some reality to the 'our bodies' topic in Everybody U...