Daily Archives: April 8, 2008

Phrase Lessons Can be Fun and Really Help the Students!

April 8, 2008 – 8:47 am

As Edward noted earlier, he learned an interesting technique from Gideon about how to get the students to really work with the Phrases and I have been using this method recently with my higher level students to get them to find the missing words and put them in to complete a passage that I have [...]

By Al Bartle | Posted in SSE Okamoto Corner, my high level students | Comments (1)

Boldly going where no English lesson has gone before

April 8, 2008 – 5:17 am

I’ve recently been on a nostalgic Star Trek kick and have had trouble finding someone to share my trekker feelings with. It’s very fortunate that Smith’s School of English Kyobashi has such a wide range of students with a vast number of interests. Unable to contain my excitement one day over the new [...]

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

Seeing pink!!!!

April 8, 2008 – 4:16 am

What a beautiful day it turned out to be for our cherry blossom picnic in the park. The sun was shining and the yakitori was grilling. What better an accompaniment than the greatest of Japanese beers, an Asahi!! So off I went in high spirits ready to kick off the afternoon with some merriment under [...]

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

Hanami food festival

April 8, 2008 – 2:42 am

The weather forecast was predicting that it would rain this past Sunday, but thanks to some good luck and quite a good deal of sunshine, it turned into a beautiful day. The perfect day for a picnic! It was just a wonderful coincidence that the cherry blossoms were in full bloom at the [...]

By SJ | Posted in SSE Kyobashi Corner | Comments (1)