The first video clip shows how you would enter the country after landing the airport in Japan. The second video clip is very short (20 seconds) and shows two girls using a drinks machine in Japan.

In front of Ichikawa station in Chiba which is about 15min away from Tokyo Station.

As mentioned, this sheet has some basic greetings in Japanese.

Introduction of basic verbs with sound. ---masu form and ---te imasu. Sound only available in PowerPoint format.

o-bon period is from 13th to 16th August, during which souls of ancestors come back to visit their family. People used to dance to welcome ancestors' souls, which has become an annual dance event during the summer.

Gap filling exercises using real news for intermediate to advance learners. For intermediate learners, vocabulary should be given in advance.

Houses in the residential area

Kinue Snookes, Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Worcester, recaps the main points learnt during one of her lectures in a slide show with audio commentary

Taster session for pre-university students.

Usuful link for Japan Travelling, Studying(Scholarships), Amine, Manga, Cultural TV programmes, TV Drama, Japanese language lessons, Japanese language exam

To be used by an instructor alongside Japanese for Busy People I in class. Suitable for optional module. Further slide presentations available upon request.

For upper-intermediate to advanced level. Questions about TV drama. To be used by an instructor. Distribue a separate question sheet without answers to the students and show the video clip. The video clips for each episode are available on YouTube. Students of intemediate level should be given a vocabulary sheet in advance to look up the meaning of each word.

For upper-intermediate to advanced level. Questions about TV series. To be used by an instructor in class. Distribute a separate question sheet without answers to the students and show the video clip. The video clips for each episode are available on YouTube. Upper-intermediate students should be given a vocabulary sheet in advnce to look up the meaning of each word.

Students can identify systematic rules of verb groups by completing the list of verbs with nai form. Nai form is the key to identify verb groups.

Odaiba is one of the trendy spot in Tokyo. There are many things to do. Joypolis, Legoland, museums, technology centre, Channel 8 building, shopping centres and convention centres, etc. are there.

Short basic reading exercise for beginners.

Step by step grammar explanation for Relative Clause and follow up exercises

Speaking practice for beginners. Role play. To be used in class after introducing "--- ni ikimasu/ikimashita" sentence pattern. Can be used for writing practice.

Travelling in the trains

High-tech Toilet(First model made in 1980's), Hanko(stamps with surnames), Plastic food samples

Some useful everyday phrases I use with pupils and have displayed in my teaching rooms

Long form and short form of each verb group are listed to help students to learn them systematically.

A worksheet to test your vocabulary and prepare you for visiting a doctor in Japan

A poster illustrating why to learn Japanese.