TM Teaching Materials

I'm an experienced ESL Teacher with a degree in Web & Multimedia and Marketing. I've been teaching English as a second language since 2018. I've taught online and in-person to children and adults across Thailand, Singapore and China. My hobbies include graphic design, gaming, and eating and trying lots of food! I have been known to take entire food holidays. I've always spent far too much time trying to make lesson materials, it's been a bit of a curse so far but now I'm trying to turn that into a blessing by converting my folders of teaching materials and lessons into usable classes for others to use too. I love to design things and put my heart into every bit of material I make. Recently with the advent of AI, I've been turning my large and eclectic bank of lesson materials into a more ordered, structured format that can be used on any device - so long as you can open a browser.

Unrelated to teaching, along with my wife we have fostered several dogs across the course of the last decade - some we took from abusive situations and some were not in the best shape medically. This culminated in us taking in a pregnant lady doggy who had been left chained up for several months. She gave birth to 5 healthy pups in our bedroom, and then even adopted 4 more pups that were found in the local area - nine pups in total! We found homes for all but 2 of them - but the last two made it abundantly clear that they didn't want to be around anyone else, and so we committed to keeping two very unique pups. One such pup - Chalaam (meaning Shark in Thai, on account of his silver-coloured fur) - turns out to have some sort of anxiety which can trigger panic attacks. He now takes Gabapentin to help manage this, but still has moments where he's climbing on desks, scratching to get into corners that offer him no reprieve, and pacing back and forth in the garden... We're slowly getting him into a better state with the help of our vet, but it seems to be impossible to pin-point his triggers. Other than our dog fostering, I personally am a big fan of games - especially boardgames! I love games that get you thinking; Scythe, Codenames, Werewolf, you name it. I also attribute a lot of my own vocabulary learning to games that I played online such as World of Warcraft, Diablo 2, Dota, and many, many more.