The world is a truly fascinating place. So often we get bogged down with the stress of life that it’s hard to see just how good we have it. I recently read something in a book that made me think and while I have shared this story with some of my students I feel it [...]
The communicative method. What is it? Especially for kids. When you teach EFL for kids, you have a different set of challenges than adults. To begin with, they have fewer experiences to draw from than adults. Further, they are not as intellectually developed as adults, and finally (?) they cannot read or write English. Having [...]
From the 3rd grade through to the end of high school I studied Spanish. It wasn’t entirely my choice but that’s another story. I remember dreading going to my Spanish class in high school during my final two years because the class was way over my head. I lost all confidence in my ability and [...]
スミス英会話上新庄校の日本語サイトはこちらです。 This year Earth hour in Japan is Saturday, March 28th from 8:30- 9:30 pm. This is Earth Hour’s third year. It started in 2007 in Sydney. In 2008, it went global. Rome’s Colosseum, Sydney’s Opera House and Time Square’s Coca Cola billboard, along with 50 million people around the globe, turned off their lights for [...]
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。日本語はこちらへ The April 2009 edition of “Kia Ora from New Zealand“, which is my student’s blog in Japanese, is now up! This latest edition is quite interesting in that she describes some recent and not altogether positive changes in her professional life in New Zealand. What was a solid steady job for her has suddenly [...]
Recently there have been a few posts by a few franchisees talking about the cooperation at Smith’s and how effective our TEAM really is. Probably the best thing about working with such dedicated people is that we each bring something different to the table. Over the past 8 years there have been improvements in the [...]
Yesterday and today, I handed out flyers wih Al, owner of Smith’s School of English Okamoto. Yesterday we worked near his school in Okamoto, Kobe and today near my school, Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi in Tsukaguchi, Amagasaki City. Working with Al was great. On both days after handing out flyers together, we went to a coffee shop and talked about [...]
In 1989 my family and I moved to Bangkok. It was quite a big change for all of us, the biggest was the lack of TV shows and movies in English. As my parents were both busy it became my weekly family task to head to the video store across town and pick up enough [...]
One of nicest day trips by car that I can think of is a day spent at Rurikei. This is a mountain-top recreational area a few kilometers north of Nose-cho along Route 173, and just inside Kyoto Prefecture, Nantan City. Rurikei has a large number of sights with tons of things to do, and if [...]
This will be just a quick post to say thanks to the staff at Kyobashi head office. On Saturday I phoned them up to see whether they could update my school’s website with new information about our current campaign and Niall-sensei’s information as soon as possible. I felt a sense of urgency because the poster [...]
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