Daily Archives: February 8, 2010

Smith’s Eikaiwa Sakai Higashi and Smith’s Eikaiwa Nakamozu New Years Resolutions.

スミス英会話堺東・なかもず校講師が書いた記事。日本語のメインサイトはこちら→(スミス英会話堺東校)(スミス英会話なかもず校)
I usually start the year with a New Years Resolutions lesson for all of my students throughout January. Hearing my students’ plans and goals for the coming year allows me to really connect with them on a personal level. Something that the teacher/owners in the Smith’s School of English franchise system really enjoy being able [...]

Am I the Same “Good Morning” Person?

この記事(スミス英会話大津校の講師作)の日本語版はこちら。
When Edward, my younger sister and I were handing out Smith’s School of English Ohtsu (スミス英会話大津校) flyers at  JR Ishiyama  station (石山駅) in the morning, something fun happened.
Three high school girls passed by me so I said, “Good morning! How are you?” Usually, at least one of them would say “Good morning” back since they [...]

スミス英会話 布施・東大阪: Pronunciation Course and Contractions (短期発音コース)

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
After reading Les’s article just earlier about the difficulty students sometimes have with the disappearing “H” and also the various contractions and reductions we often use in spoken English I was reminded of the special focus I place on teaching and stressing some of these characteristics of spoken English in the pronunciation course at my [...]

Listening to The Baby for Eikaiwa Listening

The other day I was thinking about the role of listening in the 英会話 (eikaiwa) industry here in Japan.  A lot of students in my school (スミス英会話生駒) have trouble repsonding because they have trouble with listening.

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