About the Author
| * Originally from New Jersey, Jon Berman earned his MA in English linguistics from Arizona State University. |  |
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| * After instructing in Korea, Jon moved to Japan, where he has been teaching full time in universities since 1996. | ||
| * In late 1994 he created Jon's ESL Website, later renamedTokyoJon. | ||
| * In 2005 Jon created Aesop's English, which was later placed online to show how an ESL text in interactive format could succeed on the Web. | ||
| * By 2005-2006 Jon had become increasingly frustrated with so many dull, uninspiring, low-quality ESL texts and began to create his own class lessons from scratch. | ||
| * Jon's lessons evolved into Life Topics now an online opportunity for English teachers around the globe. Enjoy! |