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...
Wednesday, 23 July 2025

Yukihi's snow animal

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  Check out Yukihi's lovely after reading project - created with Chatterpix in a matter of minutes. Student's own design on paper, d...
Tuesday, 22 July 2025

The news headlines (late June, 2025)

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 A feature in The Guardian Weekly news magazine is a round up of global headlines ("Global Report") which I've been using to c...
Sunday, 8 June 2025

China's snow bird - a writing & speaking project

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 You've read the book, and enjoyed the thrills & spills with familiar characters...digested new vocabulary and recycled more; read b...
Friday, 6 June 2025

Talking text - Chiharu's Snow Rabbit

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  Listen to super Chiharu describing her "Snow Animal", an after reading project from OUP Read & Imagine graded reader "I...
Thursday, 5 June 2025

The Scarlet Letter - A brief biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known for Dark Romantic novels and stories such as ...

Postcard from...Taipei, Taiwan

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  Hi! Jim! I'm visiting Taiwan, just two days. Taiwan like Japan, so I can't feel like travelling abroad. But, Taiwanese food is del...
Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Salem: where Nathaniel was born

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The author of this book, The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne.  He was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804.  Salem is a famous histori...
Wednesday, 23 April 2025

My cute cousin Gouta

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Of all my relatives, I like my cousin Gouta the best. He is ten years younger than me. He is a really cute boy and extremely funny for me. ...
Friday, 11 April 2025

"Hunting" should be illegal or not

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 I believe that hunting is a complex issue with both moral and practical considerations.  The first thing I thought was that hunting should ...
Friday, 4 April 2025

The wonderful character in my workplace

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 Let me introduce you to the member of my workplace!  Tomoko-san is our manager. She is thoughtful. She has a wide perspective and she alway...
Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Postcard from Chicago, USA

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Jim sensei, Hello from Chicago! Chinatsu and I had a business trip to the US. On Sunday afternoon we walked around Chicago downtown and took...
Friday, 7 March 2025

How do you think about "Hunting"?

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 We sometimes encounter wild animals due to some reasons. Wild animals may come near human dwellings to search for food as they are unable t...
Wednesday, 26 February 2025

Postcard from the tropical rainforest - Malaysia

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 Hello, Jim :) How are you? I'm enjoying my life! I'm going back to Japan February 17th See you in the next lesson :) From Sachiko
Tuesday, 25 February 2025

The pros and cons of getting older

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 Some people say that getting older is the best time of your life. However, getting older has noth advantages and disadvantages. On the plus...
Monday, 24 February 2025

Postcard from Maroc - Morocco

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 My dream came true at last! I am travelling around Morocco!! I feel like travelling different countries each day. What a exotic, wonderful ...
Friday, 21 February 2025

Beats Studio 3 - product review

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 Awesome headphones for any situation I use my awesome headphones when I simply want to listen to music, or to study, but also on a train or...