Daily Archives: May 17, 2007

Introduction

I’m honored to be asked to contribute to the Soapbox b/c I believe helping others learn can only lead to good things. Anyway, before I post my first actual article I thought it best that I let you know a little about myself. I was born in a small town in England but ended up [...]

Smith’s School of English Lesson for One Student at Kyobashi, 5-17-07 Pippa

This lesson was held in a multi classroom envirnoment at Smith’s school of English Kyobashi.
E.T.
If you decide to go bunji jumping should I try and talk you out of it? This is the first question I ask my two students as they make them selves at home. After a brief moment I was [...]

Smith’s School of English Lesson for Three Students at Kyobashi, 5-17-07 MW

Thursday night Smith’s School of English lesson by MW
ET:
I started this lesson with 3 pink students by asking each of them what gifts they gave their mothers on mother’s day this past Sunday. 2 gave their mothers popular flower gifts and I was surprised to hear the third student didn’t give his mother anything. But [...]

Head office goes the extra mile…again!

I’m between lessons and just got off the phone from Gavin at Smith’s School of English head office. At the last training seminar I had promised to get on my computer and write something for the new blog. Between my full schedule and the (excellent) Golden Week holidays, I had kept putting it off. Partly [...]

Website’s Power

Recently I am getting a lot of trial students through the website. I have not been doing as many flyers as in the past but the number of trials has gone up a lot in the past two months. It is really great when a student books a trial after finding my school [...]