I have been the franchisee and teacher of Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校 for one year today!!!!!!!! I have always loved languages, especially English, so it is really rewarding being able to earn my living teaching my favourite language at my own English conversation school. I always enjoy my lessons with my very special students, [...]
In studying English, you may have experienced forgetting what you have already learnt and feel down or blame yourself saying “I know I’ve done this before!” Or maybe you have even lamented over memory lapses. From my experience, I feel it is quite difficult to get what we have just learnt to sink in all [...]
I’m writing this sitting in the classroom at my English conversation school Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校 waiting for my next student to turn up. Yesterday, Asada Mao won a silver medal in the women’s figure-skating at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Today I have already used an exercise, based on an article about the final from [...]
Many of us have heard that “knowledge is power.” In year’s past knowledge was limited. I lived in Manila from the age of 8 and then moved to Bangkok when I was 14. A few years ago my parents told me that when the first made the decision to move abroad that they went to [...]
I’m loving everything that I do for the Smith’s School of English franchise school system and my English conversation school(英会話学校), Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話 塚口校) in Tsukaguchi (塚口), Amagasaki City (尼崎市), Hyogo Prefecture (兵庫県), Japan. That includes all the work that I do to find new students, coaching communicative confidence to my great students, holding events [...]
I remember back in the 80s Atari was BIG…people were crazy over games such as Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Frogger. I remember playing against my friends on a black and white 8 inch TV. Wow, how times have changed?! In the past 20 years technology has literally exploded, it’s hard to keep up with all [...]
This is my 10th year at Smith’s…and I’ve learnt a lot over those years. I have become a better teacher, a better businessman, and a better student (because I’m always learning). I’ve had the privilege of learning from many different people within the system and for that I’m extremely grateful. My students at Smith’s 英会話 [...]
I’m loving everything that I do for my English conversation school (英会話スクール), Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi(スミス英会話 塚口校). That includes handing out flyers promoting my school. This morning while handing out flyers, I came up with the “smile with your eyes” idea. So what does it mean? It means radiating warmth from your eyes while handing out flyers which [...]
When I first moved to Los Angeles I had nothing, and I lived with relatives, a while later I moved into my first apartment with a friend just off Santa Monica and Gower. It was a small place in what I consider a dirty area, but it was for a time, home. My next apartment [...]
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