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November, 2011
· Listening Skills Test (OTHERS)
· New Laws to Eradicate Yakuza? (OTHERS)
· Listening Skils database (Level A)
· Test Your Listening Skills! (Level A)
October, 2011
· English as Workplace Language in Japan (OTHERS)
· Reading: Dogs: Friend or Foe (Level A)
September, 2011
· Reading: Pests in the House! (Level A)
· 'X' now a gender option in passports (News)
· Exercises: Describe (Level A)
· Adjectives Ending in -ED and -ING (Level A)
June, 2011
· NEWS: Crime Rates in Japan (News)
· Calling in Sick (Level A)
· Listening: Calling In Sick (Level A)
· RH Bill in the Philippines (News)
May, 2011
· Stress, lack of privacy in evacuee shelters (OTHERS)
March, 2011
· Reading: There Goes the Neighborhood! (Level A)
· Reading: A Love Letter (OTHERS)
· Divorce means Liberation for Some (News)
· Western Japan Firms Urged to Boost Activity (OTHERS)
· NEWS: Bungling, cover-ups define TEPCO (News)
· English is Difficult (Level A)
· In tragedy, Japan impresses the world (OTHERS)
· Grammar: Forming Adjectives (Level A)
· Let's Learn Is, Am, Are (Kids A)
· Japan manufacturers keep Annual Pay Hike (OTHERS)
· Power Outages After the Earthquake (OTHERS)
· Effect of Quake and tsunami to Japan economy (OTHERS)
· Phrasal Verb: Take Down (Level A)
· How to Compare Using Adjectives (Level A)
· Reading: Gasoline Prices (Level A)
· Reading: Shopping in the Morning (Level A)
· Let's Compare: Using Comparatives (Kids A)
· Japan considers sharp cut in aid to China (OTHERS)
February, 2011
· Reading Comprehension Tests (TOEIC)
· Cellphone Manners (OTHERS)
· Dialogue: Airport English (Level A)
· Japan Slowly Embracing Organ Donation (News)
· comparatives (Kids A)
· Pronunciation: A and E Sounds (OTHERS)
· Pronunciation: Ch and J Sounds (OTHERS)
· Japanese men relish joy of homemaking (News)
· Reading: Stress in My life (Level A)
· Walking For A Better Life (Level A)
· Dealing with Grief (OTHERS)
· Getting Good Jobs (OTHERS)
January, 2011
· Second life begins at 60 (OTHERS)
· Reading: Smart Shopping (Level A)
· Reading: Great Day for Driving (Level A)
· Reading: Going to Work On time (Level A)
· Teachers to Give Classes in English (OTHERS)
· Right Attitude At Interview And At Work (OTHERS)
· Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (OTHERS)
· Reading: Beach and Mountain (Level A)
· Reading: Family Dinner (Level A)
· NEWS: Email Romance (News)
· Reading: Greeting Each Other (Level A)
· English and Math (Level A)
· More Math Problems (Kids B)
· English and Mathematics (Kids B)
· Making a Good Impression (Level A)
· Reading: Winter Driving (Level A)
· Reading: Safe Shopping Trip (Level A)
· Teaching Importance of Jobs (News)
· Exercise: Chinese Lemon Chicken (Level A)
· Using Pronouns (Kids A)
· Making Questions (Level A)
· Japan struggles to deal with child suicides (News)
· Reading: Recipe for Chinese Lemon Chicken (Level A)
· Reading: Using ATM (Level A)
· Reading: Tom Lost His Job (Level A)
December, 2010
· Pronunciation: Sh Sounds (OTHERS)
· What Is Your Question? (Kids B)
· Reading: The Librarian's Problem (Level A)
· Fruits and Vegetables: This/That/Those/That (Kids A)
· Exercise: Reported Speech (Level A)
· Toyota to pay fines to U.S. Gov't (News)
· Grammar: Reported Speech (Level A)
· Exercise: Present Progressive Tense (Level A)
· Exercise: Presentation Tips (Level A)
· Grammar: Present Progressive Tense (Level A)
· Reading Comprehension: Presentation Tips (Level A)
· N.Korea says war with South would go nuclear (News)
· Exercise: Past Perfect Continuous (Level A)
· Exercise: Past Perfect Tense (OTHERS)
· Past Perfect Tense (Level A)
· NEWS: More adults live with parents (News)
· Past Perfect Continuous Tense (Level A)
· Exercise: COnditional Sentences (Level A)
· Grammar: Conditional Sentences (Level A)
· Exercise: Annual School Fair (Level A)
· Reading Comprehension: Annual School Fair (Level A)
· Gov't reports worsening youth unemployment (News)
· Tongue Exercises! (Kids B)
· Exercise: Active and Passive voice (Level A)
· Active and Passive Voice (Level A)
· Exercise: Future Tense (Level A)
· Using Future Tense (Level A)
November, 2010
· Utada: "I don't want to be a helpless adult" (News)
· Exercise: Simple Present Tense (Level A)
· Office Pictures (Level A)
· My New Office (Level A)
· Reading Comprehension: Lion and Mouse Fable (Level A)
· Exercise: Lion and Mouse (Level A)
· The Lion and the Mouse (Kids B)
· Walls - Understanding Poems (Level B)
October, 2010
· I Love My Pet... (Level B)
· How To Say "no" Nicely (Level A)
· Exercise: Prepositions of Time (Level A)
· Learning English Is Hard (Level A)
· Spell it the Easy Way (Level A)
· Hotel Reservation (Level B)
· Exercise: Telephone English (Level A)
· Telephone English (Level A)
September, 2010
· Expressing Opinion (Level A)
· Exercise: Am, Is and Are (Level B)
· NEWS: Malaysian Air Carrier Enters Japan (News)
· Using Am, Is and Are (Level A)
· How to Use Do and DON'T (Level A)
· Exercise: Using Does and Doesn't (Level A)
· Japan experiences hottest summer on record (News)
August, 2010
· Using Does and Doesn't (Level A)
· Telling Time (Level A)
May, 2010
· Asking Questions on Electric Bill (Level A)
· My School Things (Kids A)
· Exercise: What are they doing? (Kids A)
· What Are They Doing? (Kids A)
· Animals: Using This and These (Kids A)
March, 2010
· Pronouns: Myself, Yourself (Level A)
· Exercise: Food Idioms (Level B)
· Job Interview Questions (OTHERS)
· Food Idioms (Level A)
· The Future Husband Of Career Women (OTHERS)
· Let's Test Your Listening Skills (OTHERS)
· Appointment With The Dentist (Level A)
· Business Phone Call (Level A)
· Pronunciation: Long /u/ and Short /u/ (Level A)
· What Would You Do? (OTHERS)
· How Busy Are You? (OTHERS)
· Weather Idioms (Level A)
· PRONUNCIATION EXERCISE: DIPTHONGS (Level A)
· Color Idioms (Level A)
· Pronunciation: /i/ and /e/ Sounds (Level A)
· Following Instructions (Level A)
· Exercise: Word order (OTHERS)
February, 2010
· SLANGS - EXERCISE (Level A)
· Rate Your Relationship With Your Boss (OTHERS)
· Airline Reservations (Level A)
· Hong Kong leader's housekeeper sacked (OTHERS)
· Hotel Services (Level A)
· Correct Word Order and Polite English (Level A)
· Vocabulary: Slangs (Level A)
· American Slangs and Expressions (Level A)
· Surgical tool left in woman's abdomen (OTHERS)
· Please Dont Cry, Joni (OTHERS)
· Boy attends School as a Girl (OTHERS)
· Sumo Wrestler Asashoryu Quits (OTHERS)
January, 2010
· 16 security cameras installed in Akihabara (OTHERS)
· What is Palm Reading? (OTHERS)
· What do you look forward to? (Level A)
· Fortune Telling Idioms and Expressions (Level A)
· Verbs in Focus: Get Up and Wake up (Level A)
· Verbs: Past tense and Past Participle (Level A)
· Dialogue: Ordering In a Restaurant (Level A)
· NEWS: Haiti Earthquake (OTHERS)
· Preposition of Time: IN and ON (Level A)
· NEWS: Google Threatens China (OTHERS)
· Business News: China overtakes Germany (OTHERS)
· NEWS: Mothers Selling their daughters (News)
December, 2009
· NEWS: Mental Health Issues of Teachers (News)
· NEWS: Tiger Woods' Divorce Battle (News)
· 42.8% of Japanese see no need to have children (News)
· NEWS: Recorded Number of School Violence Rises (News)
November, 2009
· 1st transplant from brain-dead person performed (News)
· Phrasal Verb: GO OUT (Level A)
· Phrasal Verb: Come on and Come Over (Level A)
· 5 Signs You May be a Bad Co worker (OTHERS)
· READING EXERCISE: The Baby Bear (Kids A)
· NEWS: Police widen search for Hiraoka’s killer (News)
· Horse back Riding Vocabulary and Idioms (Level A)
· READING COMPREHENSION: NEW HAIR COLOR (Level A)
October, 2009
· READING EXERCISE: Horseback Riding (Level A)
· Middle Eastern Wedding Traditions (OTHERS)
· Picture of A Cove (OTHERS)
· Controversial Movie on Japan's Dolphin - Hunting (News)
· Picture of A Slug (OTHERS)
· Top Businesses to Start in a Slow Economy (OTHERS)
· NEWS: Homeless Man Is Now A Millionare (News)
· The World's Best Airports 2009 (OTHERS)
September, 2009
· Missing Cat: Vocabulary (OTHERS)
· Reading: An Apple Pie (Kids A)
· Reading Comprehension: A Missing Cat (Level A)
· World's Worst Taxi Rides (OTHERS)
· Reading Lesson: New Shoes and Paper Clip (Level A)
· NEWS: Security Cameras on Trains to Reduce Crime (News)
· 7 Reasons Why Small Businesses Fail (OTHERS)
· NEWS: Miyuki Hatoyama's soul traveled to Venus (News)
· Pronunciation: "v" sounds (Level A)
August, 2009
· NEWS: Sakai Fired By Agency for Drug Possession (News)
· troubleshooting (OTHERS)
· Computer Troubleshooting Vocabularies (OTHERS)
· Warren Buffett: The world's greatest investor (OTHERS)
· Using Phrasal verb BUILD UP (Level B)
· Only in the Philippines: Jeepney (Level B)
· Japan kicks off jury trial to get close to people (News)
· Bert And Ernie (Level A)
· NEWS: Japan studies lowering legal age (News)
July, 2009
· Listening and Understanding (Level B)
· Business: Japan homeless in internet cafes (OTHERS)
June, 2009
· NEWS: DNA Testing and Questioning Suspects (News)
· Tips for Getting Good Sleep (OTHERS)
May, 2009
· World's Deadliest Diseases (OTHERS)
· NEWS: Death Penalty to be decided by Ordinary People (News)
· Most Exotic Asian Foods (Level C)
· Most Dangerous Countries (OTHERS)
· Advantages of Drinking Coffee (Level C)
· Travel: Most Expensive Cities (OTHERS)
· NEWS: Japan restarts Nuclear Power Plant (News)
· Many tired working women nibble at sweets on the job (News)
· How to Diet Properly (OTHERS)
· TOEIC: Practice Test (TOEIC)
· TOEIC: Reading Comprehension Test (TOEIC)
· Travelling to Space (OTHERS)
April, 2009
· Japan On Swine Flu (News)
· NEWS: SMAP member Kusanagi Arrested (News)
· Phrasal Verb: Make Up For (Level A)
· Tips When Travelling Alone (OTHERS)
· Pronunciation: / L / Sounds (OTHERS)
· Pronunciation and Reading Exercises (Level A)
· Pronunciation: Nouns and Verbs (Level A)
· How to Plan a Cheap Summer Vacation (OTHERS)
· Holy Week in the Philippines (Level B)
· Golden Week Travelling (Level B)
· Pronunciation Practice: /P/ and /F/ (Level A)
February, 2009
· How to Make Introductions (Level A)
· Cristina (Home)
· Phrasal Verb: Count On (Level B)
· News: Japan's Foreign Tourism Plans (News)
· Shopping - Dialogues (Level A)
January, 2009
· Phrasal Verb: Call Off (Level A)
December, 2008
· Movie Review: Princess Mononoke (OTHERS)
· Movie Dialogue: Spirited Away (Level A)
· Biggest Money Making Films (OTHERS)
· Pronunciation: Ch, Sh, J, Y (Level A)
· Tips When taking the TOEIC Test (TOEIC)
· Tongue Twisters (Level A)
· Asking Questions (Level A)
· 10 Best Places to Celebrate Christmas (OTHERS)
· Prepositions of Time: In, On, At (Level A)
· Office Worker Personalities (OTHERS)
November, 2008
· Japan: Immigrants and Women Workers (OTHERS)
· Recession At The People's Level (OTHERS)
· Pronunciation Practice: Tongue Twisters (Level A)
· St. Patrick's Day - an Irish Holiday (Level B)
· Phrasal verb: Look For (Level B)
· How to use "JOIN IN" (Level B)
· How to say "CHEER UP!" (Level A)
· Song Comprehension: Can't Buy Me Love (Level B)
· History Of Thanksgiving (Level B)
October, 2008
· Why Pumpkin on Halloween? (Level B)
· History Of Halloween (Level B)
· Song Comprehension: Heal the World (Level B)
· Comprehension: You Can't Hurry Love (Level B)
· Sounds in Focus: /s/ and /z/ (Level A)
· Reading Signs (Level A)
· Practice Your Reading Comprehension (Level B)
· How to say "GIVE UP" (Level A)
· Learning New Words (Kids B)
· Learn New Words (Level A)
· Rhymes and Nursery Rhymes (Kids A)
· World's Powerful Women (OTHERS)
· Sounds in focus: /R/ and /L/ (OTHERS)
· A Grammar Review (Level A)
· Verbs and Pronouns (Level A)
· Pronouns and Verbs (Kids B)
· What Do You Do Everyday? (Kids A)
· Learning Meanings Through Sentences (Level A)
· Relationship Verbs: Go out and Break Up (Level A)
· Vocabulary: Words with Voice (Level B)
· Power Up Your Vocabulary (Level A)
September, 2008
· Abbreviations (Level A)
· Money Talks: Buy Out, Sell Off, Mark Up (OTHERS)
· Word Meanings from Sentences (Level A)
· Vocabulary: Words with Love (Level B)
· Verbs and Compound Subjects (Level A)
· Office Verbs: Bring Up and Burn Out (OTHERS)
· Power Up your Vocabulary:About Life (Level B)
· Phrasal Verbs for Business (OTHERS)
· Vocabulary: Years and Anniversaries (Level A)
· Antonyms - Opposite Meanings (Level B)
· Compound Subjects (Kids A)
· Opposite Meanings (Level A)
· Antonyms (Kids A)
· Japanese Proverbs (OTHERS)
· Saying Please (Kids A)
· More Homographs (Level A)
· Using Simple Past tense (Level A)
· Phone Verbs: Hang up and Hold on (Level A)
· Simple Past Tense (Kids A)
· Simple Present Tense (Kids A)
· Pronunciation: /a/ and /o/ (Level A)
· World's Worst Dictators (OTHERS)
· How to Use Get Up and Wake Up (Kids B)
· Donald Trump: A Man of Success (OTHERS)
· Business Parties (OTHERS)
· Pictures... (Kids A)
· TOEIC: Reading and Understanding (TOEIC)
· Sounds in focus: /f/ and /v/ (Level A)
· Informal Business Meetings (Level A)
· When to use "Pick somebody or Something Up" (Level A)
· Proper Behaviour in Business Meetings (OTHERS)
August, 2008
· Using the verbs "Check in" and "Check out" (Level A)
· World's Billionaires and Japan's Billionaires (Level A)
· How to use "get on" and "get off" (Level A)
· Common and Proper Nouns (Level A)
· Using Simple Present tense Correctly (Level A)
· Common Nouns and Proper Nouns (Kids A)
· Phone Verbs: Call back; Cut somebody off ; Hold on (Level A)
· Learning the verb "Dress up" (Level A)
· Picture Differences - Colors (Kids A)
· Phrasal verb in focus: BE ON (Level A)
· Use the Right Word:Came-Come, Give-Gave-Given (Level A)
· Cases of mental illness in companies on the rise (Level A)
· Bon Summer travel exodus peaks (Level A)
· Using Possessive Form of Plural Nouns (Level A)
· Reading Comprehension: Autumn (Level A)
July, 2008
· A Nation's Strength (Level A)
· NHK Radio - On a Slow Boat to China (Level A)
· Exercise - Using Simple Past tense Correctly (Level C)

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