Teacher JamieArchive
March, 2012
· Is there a best way to discipline your child? (Home)
· mairble (Level B)
January, 2012
· Borrowing Money (Level B)
· Phrasal Verb: Poverty (Home)
· Phasal Verb: Household (Home)
· Phrasal Verb: Chores (Home)
· Phrasal Verb: Supplies (Home)
· Phrasal Verb: Meeting (Home)
· Phrasal Verb: Relations (Home)
· Phrasal Verb: Coffee (Home)
· Phrasal Verb: Jackpot (Home)
· Phrasal Verbs: Life (Level B)
· Facebook Make You Sad (News)
· TEPCO electricity rates (News)
· Flu cases in Japan (News)
· 12 Easy Tips for a Happier Relationship (OTHERS)
· Unemployment benefits (OTHERS)
· Dancing Mayor (OTHERS)
· Determiners (Home)
· Passive VS Active (Home)
· Present Tense- Main Verb (Home)
· 13 elderly people taken to hospital (OTHERS)
December, 2011
· Top 10 New Year's Resolutions (OTHERS)
· Pilot Intoxicated (OTHERS)
· Transportation (Kids A)
· Radiation Contamination in Baby Formula (News)
November, 2011
· Controversial vodka billboard (OTHERS)
· How to Look for a Job (OTHERS)
· Frustrated wife (OTHERS)
· Heartbroken Dog (OTHERS)
· Question Words for Kids (Kids A)
· Emperor has mild pneumonia (OTHERS)
· More Hospitals Banning Elective C Sections (OTHERS)
· Benetton ‘Unhate’ Ad Campaign (OTHERS)
· Teacher Caught on Tape (OTHERS)
· Japan to open Fukushima reactors... (OTHERS)
· Cause and Effect for Kids (Kids B)
· Number one priority for some Korean moms is "111111" (OTHERS)
· Peposition of TIME (Kids B)
· Childhood Obesity In America (OTHERS)
October, 2011
· Idioms (Home)
· Numbers (Home)
· Family Description (Kids A)
· EXERCISES TENSES (Home)
· NOUNS (Level B)
September, 2011
· Consonant Blends (Level A)
· Landslide fears... (News)
· Jobs program to train geisha (News)
· Naha air traffic controller... (News)
· Labor Day Travel Decline Expected (News)
· Mementos from our darkest day (News)
· 'Glee' star latest fashion victim... (News)
August, 2011
· Anger mounts in tsunami-hit areas ... (News)
· Prepositions for kids (Kids A)
· Story: The World is Round (Level B)
· Story: Gain or Loss (Level B)
· Story: Everyone is Important (Level B)
· Story: Do What You Say (Level B)
· Story: Seeking Contentment (Level B)
· Story:Look Where You Walk (Level B)
· Sentence Stress and Pronunciation (Level B)
· Reasons Why People Don't Listen (Level C)
· Types of Sentences for Beginners (Home)
· ANS Grammar Sentences (Home)
· Types of Sentences (Level B)
· Phrasal Verb with the word Break (Level B)
· Phrasal Verb with Give (Level B)
· Illness (Home)
· Crime (Home)
· Speaking (Level B)
· Food and Drink (Level B)
· Thinking (Level B)
· Travel (Level B)
· Emotions (Level B)
· GRAMMAR: Types of Sentences (Level B)
· Story: Selfish Friendship (Level B)
· Use of This, That, Some, and Any (Level A)
· How To Tell Direction (Level B)
· Nuclear Victims (News)
· COMPOUND (Level B)
· COMPOUND WORDS FOR BEGINNERS (Home)
July, 2011
· Articles for Kids (Home)
· Articles (Level A)
· Interjection for Kids (Home)
· Indulgences (Level B)
· Sharing mom's bed won't harm kids' social skills (OTHERS)
· Interjections (Level A)
· Uses of Shall and Will and Should (Level B)
· Uses of Have, Has and Had (Home)
· Uses of Do, Does and Did (Level B)
· The Present-Perfect Tense: Using "Has" and "Have" with the Past Participle (Home)
· Subject Verb Agreement for Children (Kids A)
· Subject-Verb Agreement for Beginners (Home)
· Use of Apostrophes (Home)
· 10 Simple Rules For A Happy Marriage (Level C)
· Container Vegetable Gardens (Level B)
· Various Types of Financial Aid Available to Students (Level C)
· Use of Will (Level B)
· Harry Potter's Radcliffe on Alcohol (Level B)
· Use care buying into a company's buyback fever (Level C)
· Active/Passive and Adverb Placement of Simple Future (Home)
· Passive/Active and Adverb Placement on Future Perfect (Home)
· Subject-Verb Agreement (Kids B)
· Using Have and Has (Home)
June, 2011
· Use of May and Might (Home)
· The -ing form (Level B)
· The Passive (Level B)
· Present forms for the future (Level B)
· Use of Going to and Will (Level A)
· Future Perfect (Level B)
· Simple Future (Level B)
· Grammar: Past continuous (Level B)
· Grammar: Present continuous (Level B)
· Present Perfect (Level B)
· Past perfect (Level B)
· Simple Past (Level A)
· Dialogue: Going Digital (Level A)
· Above, Below, Over, Under (Home)
· Dialogue: A Great Workout (Level A)
· VERB vs GERUND (Kids A)
· Gerund and Infinitives for kids (Kids B)
· Gerund (Kids B)
· Gerund and Infinitive (Level B)
· Personal and Possessive Adjectives (Kids B)
· LESSON FOR THE DAY (Home)
May, 2011
· Analysis of conditionals (Home)
· Mixed Conditionals (Level B)
· 3rd Conditional Tense (Level B)
· Second Conditional Tense (Level B)
· 1st Conditional Tense (Level B)
· Present Perfect Continuous (Level B)
· Past Perfect Continuous (Level B)
· The Present Perfect Simple Tense (Level B)
· Job offers down... (News)
· Aeon to switch to bioplastic shopping bags (News)
· Au Insurance to start selling nonlife policies online (News)
· Spelling Lesson - ABC (Kids A)
· Story: Apple for the Teacher (Kids A)
· Marriage Under Threat (Level B)
· 5 Tough Questions (Level B)
· Past Continuous (Level B)
· Present Continuous (Level B)
· PH Look (Home)
· Countable and Uncountable Nouns (Level B)
· Learning Cause and Effect (Home)
· Building your vocabulary (Level C)
April, 2011
· Royal wedding? Get out of town! (Home)
· Memorial Day (Home)
February, 2011
· Adverbs of Frequency - Rules for Use (Level B)
· How to Use Adjectives (Level A)
· Six -(6) Basic Patterns (Level B)
· Dialogue: Cooking (Level A)
· A Secretary's Desk (Level A)
· A Manager's Desk (Level A)
· My Friend John (Level A)
· Advance grammar quiz (Home)
· POEM READING: The Raven (Level C)
· Halloween Special (Home)
· Future with 'will' and 'going to' (Level A)
· Use of This, that, some and any with objects. (Level A)
· Speaking About Likes and Dislikes (Level B)
· Mother's Love (Kids A)
· Noun Clauses (Level B)
· The Past Tense (Level A)
· Simple Present Tense (Level A)
· Idioms with Weather (Level B)
· How to Invest Money (Level C)
January, 2011
· Story: Let's Go Fishing (Level A)
· Story: Grab Your Umbrellas (Level A)
· Mixed Phrasal Verbs (Level C)
· Mixed Prepositions for Beginner (Level B)
· Grammar: Prepositions Advance (Home)
· Phrasal Verbs with Take (Level B)
· Phrasal Verbs with Pass (Level B)
· Phrasal Verbs with Put (Level B)
· Phrasal Verbs with Turn (Level B)
· Phrasal Verbs Come (Level B)
· Phrasal Verbs with Look (Level B)
· Phrasal Verbs with keep (Level B)
· Grammar: Gerunds and Infinitives Advance (Level C)
· Grammar: Gerunds and Infinitives Intermediate (Level B)
· Grammar: Gerunds (Home)
· Grammar: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs (Level B)
· Transitive and Intransitive Verbs (Home)
· The Linking Verb (Level B)
· English Animal Idioms (Level B)
· Idioms and Their Meanings and Origins (Level C)
· Rules for Comma Usage (Home)
· IDIOMS: Word of Mouth (Level B)
· IDIOMS: Expressions with Top (Level C)
· IDIOMS: Comparisons with as .... as (Level C)
· Japan: Multiple-entry visas for Chinese (OTHERS)
· Consonants (Level A)
· Smoking Ban (Home)
· Using Because to connect sentences (Level A)
· Japan: Yamaha Motors continues... (OTHERS)
· Japan: Business leaders urge private-sector ... (OTHERS)
· Japan: Ban smoking in taxis (News)
· Japan: Debate on tax reforms (News)
December, 2010
· Using Adverb Clauses with Time Expressions (Level B)
· Adverb Clauses Showing Opposition (Home)
· Adverb Clauses with Expressions of Cause and Effect (Level B)
· Story: A Birthday Present (Kids A)
· GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES (Home)
· KINDS OF SEASON (Level B)
· WEATHER VOCABULARY (Kids A)
· FAMILY (Level A)
· Three Words Phrasal Verbs (Home)
· Adjectives Intensifiers (Level B)
· Idioms about Memory (Level B)
· Idioms about Swimming (Level C)
· Idioms about Health (Level B)
· Business Idioms (Time) (Level B)
· TAG Questions (Level B)
November, 2010
· Money and Banking Lesson (Level B)
· Business Lesson Describing Trends (Level C)
· SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT (Home)
· Reading: The Moon and the Sun (Kids B)
· Reading: Lost Pencil (Kids B)
· LOVE (Level A)
· GEOTHERMAL PLANT (Level B)
· FRESH WATER (Level B)
· Direct (Home)
· Wh- Question Clauses (Level B)
· Direct and Indirect Speech (Level B)
· Japanese Pizza Chain's 25th Anniversary (OTHERS)
· Job transfers for women (OTHERS)
· Strong Yen and Overseas Marriage (OTHERS)
· Adverb (Level B)
· Ways to Get Rich (OTHERS)
· Noun Recognition (Kids A)
· Adjective Recognition (Level B)
· Basics of Real Estate Investments (OTHERS)
· Stay stress free on your next business flight (OTHERS)
· How To Save More Money When Traveling (OTHERS)
· Travel Scam - Travel Fraud (OTHERS)
October, 2010
· Japanese women travelling more than men (Level B)
· Japan, US to implement 'open skies' deal (Level B)
· Holiday Savings Tips (Level B)
· Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole (Level B)
· Subject and Predicate (Level A)
· Irregular Verbs (Level A)
· Linking Verbs (Level A)
· Nouns & Verbs (Kids B)
· Proper Nouns (Kids B)
· Using Verbs (Kids B)
· Identifying Nouns (Kids B)
· Solids, Liquids, & Gases (Level A)
· Telling Temperature (Level A)
· Photosynthesis (Level A)
· Global Warming (Level A)
· Reading Comprehension: Barack Obama (Level B)
· The Disappearing Honeybee (Level B)
· Reading Test (Home)
· Snow Melting on Mount Kilimanjaro (Level B)
· Reading Comprehension: Genetic Engineering (Level B)
· Reading Comprehension: My Best Friend (Kids B)
· Reading Comprehension: Clean Hands (Kids B)
· Reading Comprehension: Dinner Chores (Kids B)
· Reading comprehension: Tenth Birthday (Kids B)
· APPROVED (Home)
· Building effective relationships that work (OTHERS)
· Should you discuss money problems with your children? (Level C)
· How Did Bill Gates Become So Rich? (OTHERS)
· Chanel Fashion Empire (OTHERS)
· Dialogue: In a Hotel (Level A)
· Dialogue: Asking about Restaurants (Level B)
· Dialogue: A New Apartment (Level A)
· Chores (Kids B)
· Dialogue: A Business Call (Level A)
· Dialogue: All About Movies (Level B)
· Idioms using the word Dog (Level B)
· 10 Reasons We Live Mortgage-Free (Level C)
· Top 5 Tips to Build Wealth and Success (Level C)
September, 2010
· Idioms with clothes (Level B)
· Phrasal Verbs with Get (Level B)
· Phrasal Verbs using Take (Level B)
· Phrasal Verbs using Do (Level B)
· Phrasal Verbs with Go (Level B)
· Phrasal Verbs with Come (Level B)
· Idioms Using Animal Names (Level B)
· Idioms using the word "Heart" (Level B)
· Life's Toughest Questions (Level C)
· Think Your Way To Success (Level B)
· How to Make a Smart Investment Decision (OTHERS)
· Five Ways to Enjoy Your Vacation (Level B)
· Care of Aging Parents (Level B)
· Different Concepts of Romance (Level B)
· USING It's and Its (Level A)
· Prefixes using pre-, re-, and sub- (Kids B)
· CARING (Kids B)
· Some root words + ~cide (Level B)
· Professional Relationship (Kids B)
· Slang and Idioms about Money (Level B)
· Idioms with Numbers (Level B)
· Sweet Idioms (Kids B)
· Colorful Idioms (Level A)
· Idioms using words for weather (Level B)
· Idioms that use parts of the body (Level C)
· Using æ, ä and uh (Level B)
· The Job Interview (Level B)
· MOVIES (Level A)
· The Weather's Great! (Kids B)
· The Birthday Party (Kids B)
· HOUSE CHORES (Kids A)
· Use of ANY and SOME (Level A)
· A Busy Day (Level B)
· ASKING QUESTIONS (Level B)
· HOW TO TELL A STORY (Level C)
· Is That Plastic Container Safe? (Level C)
· Message to parents getting louder: No screaming babies allowed! (Level B)
· Understanding Angry Customers (Home)
· Understanding Hostile Customers (Level B)
· Discipline & Performance Problems (Level C)
August, 2010
· The Hidden World of Marketing (Level B)
· I Think We Need Commercials (Level B)
· Miss Playing with My Friends (Level B)
· I Lost My Way in London (Level B)
· Missing Parts (Level A)
· A NEW JOB (Level B)
· A Letter of Complaint (Level A)
· Neighbors At Odds (Home)
· How to File a Complaint at a Public School (Level B)
· How To Make Complaints (Level B)
· Renting Apartments (Home)
· A Great But Stressful Job (Level A)
· A Drink at the Bar (Level A)
· Saying 'No' Nicely (Level A)
· Customer Service (Level A)
· Sounds (Level B)
· Unemployment shock hits Iceland (Level B)
· Fast-fading US recovery now looks even weaker (Level C)
· Illegal Immigrants Bear 8% of Children Born in the U.S. (Level C)
· Solutions available on a country-to-country basis: RIM (Level B)
· Plan ahead to welcome family's new member (Level B)
· HTML (Home)
· Business for good night's sleep (Level B)
July, 2010
· How to Use - Marry/ Get Married/ Be Married (Level A)
· Improving Your Speaking Skills (Level C)
· GET THE PHONE! (Level A)
· On using 'The' (Level A)
· Using Too and Very (Level A)
· Using either, neither and too (Level A)
· Using wish in the present tense (Level A)
· Using Since and For (Level A)
· Using have to, supposed to, and ought to (Level A)
· Using wish to talk about the past (Level A)
· Using So and Because (Level A)
· How to Improve Your Test Taking Skills (Kids B)
· Financing Training for Career Changes (Level B)
· Microsoft Crosses Swords with Pirates (Level B)
· Pronunciation of The American T (Level A)
· Pronouncing -ed at the ends of words (Level A)
· Summer Solstice (Level A)
· Ground Hog Day (Level B)
· April Fool's Day (Level B)
· Television Shows (Level A)
· History of Halloween (Kids B)
· English Around the World (Home)
· Five Businesses to Start in a Bad Economy (Level B)
· 7 Stressors Sapping the Middle Class (Level B)
· Money Tips for a Bad Economy (Level B)
· Play Cards (Level B)
· What's in Your House? (Level A)
· Eating at Home (Kids A)
· Taking a Bath (Kids B)
· The Travel Bug (Level A)
· Friendship (Level A)
· Catching a Cold (Level A)
· BACK TO SCHOOL (Kids B)
June, 2010
· Comelec won’t buy all PCOS machines (Level B)
· The Number One Obstacle to Retirement (Level C)
· TIM’S DAY (Level A)
· Half-Truths (Level B)
· POEM: I Build Walls (Level B)
· QUOTATIONS (Level B)
· FIND THE ODD ONE (Kids B)
· A Dove and an Ant (Kids A)
· Short Vowel Sound (Kids A)
· R-controlled vowel (ar) (Kids A)
· Ending Consonants (Kids A)
· Beginning Consonant (Kids A)
· Long Vowel E (ee) (Kids A)
· All Day (Kids A)
· Silly Willy (Kids A)
· How Important is a Politician's Image? (Level B)
· What Were you Doing? (Level B)
· Applying for a Job (Level B)
· Understanding Newspaper Headlines (Level B)
· Finding Accommodations (Level B)
· Tips: Effective Presentation (Level B)
· Today's Special (in a restaurant) (Level A)
· Introductions (At a party) (Level A)
· Making a Doctor's Appointment (Level A)
· Making a Dinner Reservation (Level A)
· Leaving a Message (Level A)
· What's in Your Office? (Level A)
· The City and the Country (Level A)
· An Interview at the Shopping Mall (Level A)
· How to Tell Time (Level A)
· The Way to a Man’s Heart (Level A)
· Jack and the Giant Pepper (Kids B)
· The "WH" Question Word (Level A)
· TOUNGE TWISTERS (Level A)
· Use of Idiomatic Expressions - Poetry (Level B)
· Idiomatic Expressions A (Level B)
· On A Hot Day (Level A)
· THE BIG BALLOON (Kids A)
· DO YOU HAVE A WISH? (Kids B)
· A Rainy Day (Kids A)
· Fire Safety (Kids A)
· Synonyms (Level B)
· When Fights Over Money Ruin Marriages (Level B)
· When It's OK to Carry Debt (Level C)
· Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore (Level B)
· DIFFERENT KINDS OF NOUN (Kids B)
· TIME TO SHOP (Kids B)
· Sarah Went Shopping (Level A)
· THE WINDOW (Level B)
· LEARN AND EARN (Level A)
· DON'T QUIT! (Level C)
· KEEP YOUR DREAM (Level B)
· A GLASS OF MILK - PAID IN FULL (Level A)
· ONE STEP (Level B)
· A SMILE (Level A)
· Don't Be Afraid (Level A)
· Face Difficulties Positively (Level B)
· The Important Things In Life (Level A)
· Enjoy your life at every moment (Level B)
· School Objects (Kids A)
May, 2010
· DAILY ACTIVITIES (Level A)
· Occupation and Jobs (Kids A)
· Prepositions (Level A)
· NAME OF BODY PARTS (Kids A)
· ACTION WORDS (Kids A)
· Ferndale woman suing after she fell asleep on plane (Level B)
· Interracial marriage still rising, but not as fast (Level B)
· What Economic Crisis? Take a Vacation Anyway! (Level B)
· How Can I be Safe When I Travel Abroad? (OTHERS)
· Four reasons you should compare travel insurance (Home)
· Fundamentals of Family Holiday (Level B)
· 8 ways to get cheap travel insurance (Level B)
· The Meaning of Wealth Translated Around the World (Home)
· More Workers Start to Quit (Level B)
· Toughest Questions (Level B)
· 5 Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires (Level B)
· Bad Temper (Home)
· Children are Wiser than Elders (Level A)
· The Story of The Prodigal Son (Level B)
· The Perfect Palace (Level A)
· The Palace and The Hut (Level A)
· Three Simple Rules (Level B)
· Be the One Who Gets the Promotion (Level C)
· For Children, a Social Network With Training Wheels (Home)
· 8 Top Reasons You Overspend (OTHERS)
· 21 Things We're Learning to Live Without (Home)
· How to Use Adverbs (Home)
· Nouns as Object of a Preposition (Home)
· How to Use Nouns as the Subject of a Sentence (Home)
· Adjective or Adverb? (Home)
· The Crooked Tree (Level A)
· The Frogs Desiring a King (Level A)
· Memo to boss: 11-hour days are bad for the heart (Home)
· Warren Buffett's son preaches values as wealth (Level C)
· 7 things it's never too late to ask mom (Home)
· Could turning off the television change your life? (Level B)
· Businesses active in providing good night's sleep (Home)
· The pill: 50 years of birth control changed women's lives (Home)
· Migrant border deaths rose to 417 in 2009 (Home)
· The Worst Words to Say at Work (Level B)
· Building Your House (Home)
· The Reality of Arranged Marriages (Home)
April, 2010
· Bad habits can age you by 12 years (Level B)
· "A, An, The" definite and indefinite articles (Home)
March, 2010
· Famous People - A Quiz on Articles (Home)
October, 2009
· IN LOVE (Home)
· Reducing Long Hours while Maintaining Productivity (OTHERS)
· THE CLEVER SHEEP (Home)
· 9 Strategies For Regaining Your Work Life Balance (OTHERS)
· TIMIDITY (Home)
· DEFEATED BY PRIDE (Home)
· Cultural Differences in Child Rearing (Level C)
· MYTH: Climate justice (Home)
· PREPOSITIONS OF TIME - IN / AT / ON (Home)
· PRONOUNS - HE, HIM, THEIR, OURS, Etc. (Home)
· The Bundle of Sticks (Level B)
· The Fox and the Goat (Home)
· The Goose with the Golden Eggs (Kids B)
· North Korea invites US envoy (Home)
· Alphabet (Home)
· IN / TO / ON /AT (Home)
· Word Puzzle (Home)
· A Box Full of Kisses (Kids B)
· Moment of Truth (Kids B)
· Half-Educated (Level A)
· Monkey Business (Kids B)
· Outwitting a Crocodile (Level A)
· The End of Leadership: Letting Things Happen (Home)
· Fear (Home)
· Question Word (Kids B)
· 'Courses for jobs' incentive plan (Home)
· Word Game Spelling (Kids A)
· Heron and the Hummingbird (Level A)
· AM - IS - ARE (Kids A)
· How Much or How Many (Kids A)
September, 2009
· A or AN (Home)
· The Ant and the Lion (Kids B)
· The Frogs and the Well (Kids B)
· The Ant and the Dove (Level A)