Hey, it’s Mike from Smith’s School of English Tsuruhashi checking in for the first time and I’m feeling good…. Why???? Well, let’s see… First, I had had a couple of things on my mind today and a few things I had to deal with regarding the Tsuruhashi school. So, I called up Mark and he [...]
When I saw my schedule today, I felt a bit anxious about first lesson of the evening. This particular student is known to make a lot of very specific request about the material and type of lesson she wants to study. It took me nearly 20 minutes to come up with the lesson plan for [...]
Thursday Night Smith’s School of English Lessons By Timothy Oliver (I am a part time teacher at Smith’s. I don’t ask Smith’s to sponsor my visa) ET: I started the lesson with one orange level student. I asked him where he just came from, and he told me that he is a dentist and just [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I had a class with three green level and red level students yesterday, all of whom have been with us for at least 2 years and know each other quite well. I did not need to worry about creating a nice atmosphere because the moment I welcomed them into my classroom, a natural chitchat conversation [...]
Green curry English ria Twilight falls as a hot curry settles in my stomach from a place nearby. Sweating slightly I find that my first lesson is with a green level student who has been coming to Smith’s School of English for many years, and who consistently has multiple lessons every week, even on the [...]
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