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 Surprise! Surprise! Not only do we have our own castle in Higashi-Osaka, known as Kosaka Castle (小阪城), but we also have our own White House! (東大阪 ホワイトハウス) It’s amazing what you can find out here in Higashi-Osaka! I had heard about this place from one of my students at Smiths School of English in [...]
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 June 2009 edition of “Kia Ora from New Zealand“, which is my student’s blog in Japanese, is now up! In her latest posting she addresses several topics including the recent swine flu scare, the changes at her work, and also the pleasures of enjoying an international pot luck meal. She works [...]
For your next holiday, why not head down to Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu. Kagoshima is a surprisingly lush, sub-tropical, volcanic region in the southernmost corner of Japan and is home to some of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet anywhere. Dense jungle-like forest and smoking volcanoes are typical in Kagoshima and the lowland regions also rank among the warmest [...]
Well, another month has passed; I have now been the owner of Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校 for 3 months, and I find myself in a reflective mood again. I have been thinking how easy I now find it to adapt lessons from most parts of the SSE curriculum to suit students of different levels. Again I [...]
In an earlier posting of mine, “Showing students how to pronounce English properly”, I wrote about how I showed a student of mine how to properly pronounce the sounds “er” (as in “waiter”) and “ir” (as in “birthday”), as well as “th” (as in “the”) using the Smith’s curriculum. You can read about it by clicking [...]
Teaching kids to ask ‘Can I have..?’ is one of my favorites. It shows good for the parents. It sounds natural. and it is easy to teach.
Crossword puzzles are said to be the most popular and widespread word game in the world. As for myself, I am just beginning to learn about how interesting they actually are. I have done some in the past when I was a child, yet have never really immersed myself fully. That is, until recently. [...]
Kaneiji is another of the Tokugawa Shogunate temples and was the most dominant of them during the Edo (Tokyo) Period. It was founded in 1625 and occupied the area known today as Ueno Park- the first public park in Tokyo. Its main hall was enormous and stood where the large fountain is, in front of [...]
I visited Japan many times since I first met my wife, Megumi, over 15 years ago. Our short trips were based in Matsue, where Megumi grew up, and where many members of her family still live. Over the years we visited Tokyo, Hiroshima, Hagi, Nagasaki, Tsuwano, Kobe and many other places in Japan. The first [...]
Recently, we’ve been fortunate to welcome new students to our Tsuruhashi School, so it was with great delight that I had the opportunity to introduce the Phrase Card lesson to a number of these students. For native English speakers, phrases and idioms seem quite obvious and natural in everyday conversation, but they can be difficult [...]
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