The idea for these activities grew out of the ELVIS (English Language Volunteers In Schools) Program, established in March 2006, in Jakarta, Indonesia, in collaboration with Yayasan Pustaka Kelana (The Wandering Books Foundation). The ELVIS program partners English-speaking expatriates with local classroom teachers. The volunteers visit the classroom once per week and bring an English activity to help the teacher enhance his/her English lessons. In this way students get to hear a native English speaker on a regular basis, and the teachers get new ideas for teaching English. All of the lesson and activity ideas developed and used in this program have been made available in book form to teachers in Indonesia and are now available on this website. Additionally, newly developed lessons and activities will be added as they are classroom-tested.

This website was created by Marsue Ferguson in an effort to provide free, effective resources specifically for Indonesian English teachers. Originally from the United States, she is currently based in Jakarta, Indonesia, and is one of the founders of English Language Volunteers In Schools (ELVIS) in that city. An experienced teacher of over 20 years, she has taught English to native and non-native speakers of all ages in several countries. She is the author of “Fun and Easy English Activities for Indonesian Schools”, helps Yayasan Pustaka Kelana facilitate workshops, and is a Master’s candidate in Designing Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment.