November 23, 2007 – 4:52 pm
One of my man-to-man students is a premed student. In his English class at his university he was required to write his opinion on some difficult topics related to medical ethics. His chosen topic was “End of Life Issues”. He came to class with his draft and we checked it together and [...]
November 17, 2007 – 7:01 pm
I have a student whose family lived in Vancouver for 2 years. She studied at a private kindergarten and elementary school for two years. She is reading at about 3rd grade level. However, she needs to practice writing, otherwise she will not be able to write at her level. She is [...]
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 26, 2007 – 11:47 pm
Today’s first high level student came in all excited because she had a very interesting recent news article that she wanted to discuss. After reviewing the ET: I am sick of (a) because (b), her example being; “I am sick of gossips because I am not interested in their private lives,” we moved onto [...]
October 25, 2007 – 4:55 am
E. T.
Will you eat lunch tomorrow? I asked, hoping to prompt the previous lesson’s one-point, “I’m sure”. This did not happen, but only because the student was confused about her one point, thinking it included their whole example from last lesson - “I’m sure I will go shopping tomorrow!” Not a bad general case, but [...]
October 23, 2007 – 9:11 pm
Last week, my regular Saturday afternoon high level student caught a cold so it was nice to see her back and healthy again today. She was also back to her regular joking self as we started out the lesson by discussing the new responsibilities that she’d been appointed with at her son’s school.
As usual, [...]
October 21, 2007 – 7:28 pm
Today I had a student who is high level.
ET
We worked through the previous one point rather smoothly and then moved onto the…
ROUTINE
Last week I had covered routine 13 with this student so I took this opportunity to go over reported speech with her to see of she remembered by asking her the last question in [...]
October 15, 2007 – 3:45 am
E.T.
I’ve been folding origami recently. At first I found it quite tricky, but once I got the knack of it - it’s easy!
This is how I introduced the one-point to my high level student. I wanted to see if he’d recognize his one-point in a natural catch-up type conversation about what we’d both been doing [...]
October 8, 2007 – 10:02 pm
I had a high level gentleman today. He is extremely keen and is always fun to teach, taking a digital camera photo of the white board work at the end of the class.
ET
I asked the student whether he remembered the one point from his last lesson and he was easily able to give the answer. [...]
October 8, 2007 – 10:02 pm
I had a high level student the other evening. Since this student had been with us for nearly 10 years, he had gone through most of the curriculum more than once, but as he told us a while ago, English is one of his hobbies and he is just happy to be able to chat.
ET:
I [...]
October 8, 2007 – 10:01 pm
ET: After we’d done a bit of catching up from the lounge to the classroom, I asked the student if she remembered her previous one point. And of course she did because she’d been practicing it on the train this morning. Her example was quite interesting actually. “When I was young, I [...]
August 27, 2007 – 5:10 pm
In my lesson last night with a student who is working to improve her TOEFL score, we worked on a reading exercise which happened to be about the Canadian Government. Although it is probably well known to my Canadian fellow franchisees and I seem to remember that Canada is still a part of the [...]
August 19, 2007 – 5:17 am
I have a married couple who are Green level students that often come on Saturdays for a joint lesson. He is a cardiologist and she is a housewife. They are both very good speakers of English but I guess that he is a little better given his wide English medical vocabulary.
We covered one [...]
I recently had a lesson with a 4th year university student who is planning to go to Canada to study for 6 months. He will study for 3 months for TOEIC test improvement and the last three months will be spent studying business in English. I am sure that he will have a [...]
Last night one of my high level students came to class prepared. She was studying the vocabulary in a book which included 3800 words often used in the TOEIC. The words are ranked from 1 to 4 with the more difficult words as Rank 4. She prepared one of those small card [...]
One of my high level students, who will quit her bank job soon to help out her parents’ real estate business, told me about her plan to study and work abroad in Australia from later this year. She plans to go in November and will take a holiday from my school for about 6 months. [...]
This is a great story to use in a high level student lesson! A DC Judge whose suit pants were lost by a dry clearners sued the dry cleaners and finally after two years his lawsuit was thrown out and he was required to pay the legal and court fees of the dry cleaners [...]
Marshal Holmes
Head Teacher
Smith’s School of English, Ogikubo
For sometime now at Smith’s School of English in Ogikubo, I have had the pleasure of teaching high level students. I currently have quite a few normal, powerful, and Man to Man students who are high level English speakers, and each one is unique and a pleasure to [...]