In April of this year, my partner Chiharu starting teaching at our school, Smith’s School of English Ohtsu. At first she was very worried that students wouldn’t like having a Japanese National for an English teacher. But her worries quickly abated as she realized several things: (1) she is an amazing coach with a deep [...]
Chiharu and I had an amazing month at our school, SSE Ohtsu. We started the month with the second half of our first Golden Week at Smith’s. As Don mentioned in “Golden Week Excursion” and Derek mentioned in “A taste of Canada at Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi“, Golden week at Smith’s is wonderful and [...]
Last weekend I had an appointment to go sailing with my friend Tom. We met at Kobe Marina and got onto the yacht. We prepared the yacht to sail and were ready to go at about 2:00pm. We motored out into Osaka bay and then put up the sails, tightened the ropes and had a [...]
The other day a very fluent, high-level gentlemen at my Smith’s School in Fukushima produced an amazing example for the Smith’s Curriculum 1-point depicted in the title. We were talking about baseball and its effect on the general population in Japan versus in America. One curiosity is that, while in America fans normally cheer the team nearest [...]
In 2011 Japan will discontinue analog television broadcasting. Analog TVs will be unable to receive TV shows broadcast in Japan without special digital tuners. At my home, I and my wife had an analog TV. We deceided to get a new, digital one. Last Sunday, we went shopping at Yodobashi Camera in Umeda, Osaka. We [...]
スミス英会話奈良西大寺校の講師が書いた記事。日本語のメインサイトはこちら On April 6th, 2008 we had our 2008 Cherry Blossom Viewing Party at Osaka Castle Park. This event was organized by 5 schools and it was a huge success! I think we had about 100 people attend this event. The weather could not have been more perfect! Good food, interesting chats, fun games and [...]
I’m sure there are many of you like myself who had never done any flyer work before coming to Japan. I remember being a little weary about it at first but I thought I’ll give it a shot and see what happens. The second student who joined my school dropped by with a flyer in [...]
Hope everyone had a nice, relaxing break over the holiday. For those of you who are into some trekking I recommend a visit to Kamikochi in the Japan Alps. It’s kind of like a mini version of the Rocky Mountains back in Canada, except with a few more souvenir shops. You won’t need to worry [...]
I am, as you all know, a firm supporter of the Smith’s School of English Curriculum. I do however, as I guess all teachers do, have my favourite parts of the curriculum. One of which is the Let’s Talk Conversation Course which is a wonderful practical way to keep a tab on the progress of [...]
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