Daily Archives: October 23, 2007

Invitations lesson at Smith’s School of English, Kyobashi

October 23, 2007 – 9:14 pm

I had a lesson with 3 orange students last week. 2 of the students I hadn’t seen in a while and the other was a new student who recently started here at Smith’s school. I noticed that they had been doing some basic items recently so I chose the more challenging intermediate ability 2 item [...]

By MW | Posted in SSE Kyobashi Corner | Comments (0)

High level “tips”

October 23, 2007 – 9:11 pm

Last week, my regular Saturday afternoon high level student caught a cold so it was nice to see her back and healthy again today. She was also back to her regular joking self as we started out the lesson by discussing the new responsibilities that she’d been appointed with at her son’s school.
As usual, [...]

By SJ | Posted in high level students | Comments (0)

A very fine day!

October 23, 2007 – 7:53 pm

Don’t you just love this fall weather? The temperature during the day is just right. And in the evening it is not yet very cool so the evenings are nice too.
It makes me remember all those years that I worked from dawn to dusk and hardly even saw the daylight. Being a [...]

By Al Bartle | Posted in English School Articles, SSE Okamoto Corner, enjoyed this a lot | Comments (0)

Birthday? At an English School?

October 23, 2007 – 3:46 am

It is really quite scary how fast time passes! Here I am in Japan, for 5 years now, and, approaching 30!!! Yes, I just spent my 29th birthday last Tuesday at Kyobashi. Well, I didn’t get a full-on birthday party, which isn’t my style anyway, I was congratulated by my closest colleague and handed a [...]

By Wendy | Posted in SSE Kyobashi Corner | Comments (0)

The Morning S-t-r-e-t-c-h

October 23, 2007 – 3:43 am

This evening I met with my pink student for the third time. Three weeks ago he saw The Morning Routine for the first time, and struggled over new words and phrases. After a week off, he was here last week and had a bit of review, then learned a few new questions and phrases. He [...]

By Sue | Posted in SSE Kofu Corner, a reward in itself | Comments (0)

Wining and dining at Smiths

October 23, 2007 – 2:44 am

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Kyobashi Wine and Cheese Party. The highlight of this evening was not only the chance to try a variety of new wines and cheeses but to also have the opportunity to meet and get to know a lot of new [...]

By Gideon | Posted in SSE Kyobashi Corner | Comments (0)