Monthly Archives: September 2009

(スミス英会話 布施・東大阪)生徒様のブログ (ニュージーランドからKia Ora 2009年10月)

  スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。日本語のメインサイトはこちら The October 2009 edition of “Kia Ora from New Zealand“, which is my student’s blog in Japanese, is now up! (日本語) Fall is quickly approaching and a recent phone call home reminded me to keep in mind that in the US daylight savings time will go into effect at the end of this [...]

スミス英会話高円寺 English is Fascinating!

This article is so interesting that I thought that I should share it with all Smith’s School of English teachers and students – past and present, and the quickest way to do that was to post it on our SSE soapbox. Do you think English is easy? Please read this exercise to the end and [...]

Where’s Wally…!?

When I was in Australia 8 years ago, I got terribly fat. The biggest reason was my host mother’s fabulous cooking.  Other than that, I went out drinking with teachers and friends every Friday, studied drinking wine and cocktail in the beverage class of a hospitality course, and enjoyed many kinds of cheese and wine [...]

The Curious Case of the Missing Caterpillar and its Cocoon.

When I first moved to Japan and started to live in my wife’s apartment I was really excited to have a little extra space. Yes, I said extra space. See, in Hollywood I had one of the smallest apartments you could ever imagine. It was basically four walls, a bathroom and a front door. So [...]

My Trip to Kyoto with a Student and Family

Doing things with my students outside the classroom is always a lot of fun. A student of mine from Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi asked my Japanese wife and I if we wanted to go to an exhibition that was being held at Kyoto Municipal Museum of  Art (京都市美術館)in Kyoto with her. The exhibition, called [...]

Naramachi ならまち

  During the “Silver Week” holidays my wife, めぐみ and I visited Nara 奈良市, which is now very convenient for us as there are trains every 20 minutes from Nishinomiya Hanshin Station 西宮駅 direct to Nara.

TOEIC Expectations by Japanese Companies

Of course this is Japan so, Japanese university students looking for jobs need excellent Japanese ability, but it seems that Japanese companies are expecting fairly good English ability also.  This became apparent earlier this year when I was looking through the SHUUKAN ST, a students’ weekly newspaper that I subscribe to for my students.  There [...]

(スミス英会話 布施・東大阪)Free English Lessons Online スミス英会話の 英語オンラインレッスン

スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。日本語のメインサイトはこちら I would just like to make a few comments about how happy I am with the new “free online mini English lessons” we have been uploading to the Smiths School of English website and using in our classrooms on a weekly basis.  (英語オンライン無料レッスン) These days with the Internet, it seems that any kind of [...]

スミス英会話BBQ(塚口校、川西校、岡本校)Smith’s is more fun!

Well we are preparing for the barbeque at my house next Sunday. It will be the last big bash for the Summer which officially already ended but not for me — not until we have this barbeque.  

Curry Udon

Living in Japan while doing my job teaching English in Japan allows me to enjoy the large variety of dishes Japanese food has to offer. One dish that I find delicious is curry udon, consisting of thick wheat-flour noodles in a curry soup mixed with meat or vegetables. At the restaurant I use chopsticks to eat it, which is the [...]

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