During this week I have been spending part the lesson time introducing or reviewing the following sentence patterns. I thought I would share it with you. An advantage/disadvantage of V+ing is (that) . . . A good/bad thing about V+ing is (that) . . . The trouble/problem with V+ing is (that) . . . ～の問題点｛もんだいてん｝は〔that以下〕である After doing the [...]
Sometimes when I teach English here at Smith School of English in Ikoma, students ask if there is a special way to be polite in English, like there is in Japanese. I used to have trouble answering them. I started to mention ‘would’ or ‘could’ but they say those are not only for politeness. And [...]
The task of keeping high quality English Conversation (英会話) coaching facilities open in an organized, professional and healthy manner has become increasingly difficult for many English School these days. Smith’s School of English is doing quite well
Living in Japan and working with students at Smith’s School of English – Koenji (スミス英会話高円寺) is an everyday scintillating experience . My classroom is a place of learning and not only for the students to who I am a coach of communicative confidence, but also for me as I get to chat about an incredible [...]
An often asked question at Smith’s School of English Koenji (スミス英会話高円寺) is “ How many words are in the English language?”, which is similar to asking the question “How many metres are in a piece of string?” Throughout the world there are over 6500 languages spoken, yet only about 1000 of them have a dictionary [...]
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 Book stores (本屋、書店) are wonderful places; even in this age of electronic media, nothing can replace some quiet time spent browsing through books at your local book store. For me, I don’t think ebooks will ever replace the feeling of flipping through a book while relaxing on a sofa. Touching a panel just doesn’t [...]
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 [...]
I often use “Let’s Talk” type question lists during lessons in my English conversation school, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校. Sometimes I base most of a lesson on these lists (some from the Smith’s School of English curriculum, and some lists that I have made myself to augment these), or sometimes to occupy the last [...]
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