Over the last few years I have noticed many changes taking place here in Japan. the ever changing skyline, the introduction of many new abbreviated English katakana words (no wonder the Japanese cannot be understood when they travel overseas and use such words thinking that they are everyday English words) and the way women appear to [...]
Halloween is coming up on Sunday, so this week I have something special that is often made at Halloween time in the entrance of my English conversation (英会話) school, Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話塚口校) in Tsukaguchi(塚口), Amagasaki(尼崎市), Hyogo Prefecture (兵庫県). I show it to students after their lessons before they leave and ask them what it’s [...]
スミス英会話なかもず校・堺東校の講師が書いた記事。日本語はこちらへ。 Last Sunday I joined one of my students from my English conversation school (英会話スクール月謝 ), Smith’s School of English Nakamozu (スミス英会話 なかもず校), for a fishing trip off the Wakayama coast. I was picked up from outside the Nankai Nakamozu (南海線中百舌鳥駅) and Midosuji Nakamozu stations(地下鉄御堂筋線なかもず駅), and we set out for the 2.5 hr drive south. The weather [...]
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 This week, I chose these wonderful yellow orchids Oncidium オンシジウムto decorate the Smith`s school of English in Fuse, Higashiosaka 東大阪布施. I love orchids オンシジューム for their intriguing form and their variety. The variety of the genus orchid is immense, with all kinds of colors and sizes. The bright yellow color of the orchid オンシジウム in our [...]
Sometimes when we write articles for The Smith’s Hirakata Soapbox page, we try to tell many different types of stories, some inspirational, some up beat, or some that are just plain “feel good”. The later being the focus of this article. I recently came upon a very interesting bit of information about a young actress [...]
Autumn is my favourite season in Japan. Like Canada, Japan has Maple trees (紅葉 or Momiji) with leaves that change to beautiful colors in autumn and are a lovely sight to enjoy alone or with others. Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話塚口校), my English conversation school (英会話スクール) in Tsukaguchi (塚口), Amagasaki (尼崎市), Hyogo Prefecture [...]
I would like to share with you a tip for a weekend trip in the Kansai area. For the last one week I’m recommending it to all of our students at Smith’s School of English Kyobashi(スミス英会話京橋校), and using it for the Routines lesson (R5 – ‘The Japan Sea’) as a story out of context. I thought [...]
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 Let`s go and see the beautiful autumn leaves at Minoh! 箕面の紅葉を見に行きましょう！ The autumn excursion of Smith`s school of English Fuse スミス英会話布施校の秋の遠足 Date: November 14th 2010 * Fuse meeting place: 8:30 am in front of Vie de France inside Fuse station ticket gates. Umeda meeting place: 9:20 am at Big Man in the Hankyu [...]
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 While in the past few week I often chose flowers which where imported to Japan and thus had a Katakana name originating from an European language, this week I am decorating the English Conversation school 英会話教室 in Fuse, Higashi Osaka 東大阪布施 with an original Japanese flower, a swertia japonica, センブリ in Japanese. Even thought the flower [...]
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