January 30, 2008 – 4:22 am
My last student of the night ended up being about 10-15 minutes late, I was starting to think that she wasn’t going to turn up. Thank goodness she did, as it was a great lesson.
She was a higher level student so we went through the ET and Routine like a breeze, which was good for [...]
January 28, 2008 – 2:05 am
I have a friend staying with me at the moment. She has been here for two weeks. She is off back home tomorrow, it’s been great having her here. I have been able to practice my Japanese since I don’t have my boyfriend to rely on when we are out and about enjoying Japan.
We have [...]
January 16, 2008 – 4:19 am
The one point I used to end the lesson was ‘Pardon?’ I wrote this up on the board and one of the students had heard of this and already knew what it meant.
When she went to say it, she said it perfectly… if she was going to be going to be speaking to someone very [...]
December 18, 2007 – 2:17 am
Just the other day I went to Starbucks (as I think every gaijin does) and I went to order my drink that is no longer on the menu. Here I was speaking my very minimal japanese and then the young lady behind the counter just outright said “Pardon?” I was very suprised and also slightly [...]
December 17, 2007 – 2:43 am
ET: You’re kidding
I told the students that I was 90 years old, they both said ‘You’re kidding!’ I was so happy that they got it straight away.
Routine: The Baby
This is the first time these students have done a L&R routines and they did really well. I was very pleased with the students because after going [...]
December 11, 2007 – 4:05 am
I had a lesson with two students who are friends and come every Monday. One of them happened to be married so, this helped alot with the one point which was ‘It was love at first sight’.
We did the routine ‘The restaurant’ which was the first time these two students had done this. At the [...]
November 13, 2007 – 2:10 am
I had a high level student for one of my lessons, she was the first yellow level student I had had.
After going through the routine with her she was very pleased with the structure of the routine and complimented Smiths Schools of English curriculum, saying that it was a good way of teaching English.
We also [...]
November 5, 2007 – 2:43 am
I had two pink level students who were friends, they are fairly new students here at Kyobashi school. For them to come together is great.
ET: Either will do
I asked what colour pen I should use to write on the board. They were looking at the pens very hard trying to decide what colour to use, unfortunately [...]
October 30, 2007 – 4:47 am
ET:
The student I saw today came in straight away and said his one point, not just from his last lesson but from the last time I saw him.
Routine:
The routine we did was The Meeting. My student claimed that he knew the story already so, I jumped to the questions to test him. This caught him [...]
October 18, 2007 – 2:48 am
I had a student the other night who has only been at Smith’s for 4 weeks. His English is quite basic so when he gave me an example of his one point, I had made a comment and then he replied with a one point from two weeks ago, I was very impressed.
It was [...]
October 15, 2007 – 3:28 am
I first found out about Smith’s School on gaijinpot.com when a job was advertised for at Kyobashi school. I applied, then came in to meet Gavin for an interview and really liked the sound of the school. Having the curriculim available to plan the lessons, the flexibility and the dresscode all appealed to me.
Gavin [...]
October 1, 2007 – 4:17 am
It was my first day teaching here at Smith’s. I was nervous for probably a week before my actual first day, which was a waste of energy because it turned out to be all good and, as everyone had told me, I really didn’t have anything to worry about. I had thorough training thanks [...]