Tom's Teaching Blog

I don’t know for sure if all the tech advances we’ve seen over the last few years (or even the last few months!) will help us make our students better language learners, but I am sure that the ability to access classroom listening material out-of-class has to be a move in the right direction. Doesn’t [...]

Hi Teachers, It’s been a frenzied start to the semester, so sorry that things are coming in piece-meal. The Teacher’s Guide is available now on the password-protected page. (Click the tab above that says “For Teachers.”) TK

For you patient teachers: Just got a .pdf containing part of the Teacher’s Manual for Nice Talking With You, which you can download here. As soon as the entire TM is available, I’ll post the download link for you here. Sooooo, subscribe to this blog, and you’ll be sure not to miss it! Tom

Hey to fellow teachers, I’ve just added all the audio files you need for teaching Nice Talking with You. You can get them in two big zipped folders, available now on the “For Teachers” page of our site.

This is Jun Kaneda, who used Nice Talking with You as a freshman at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies. As a job-hunting senior today, she has something to say about the future — a view that might surprise you.