The last few days of the year in Tokyo have been very beautiful with clear blue skies & the sun shining, of course it is still cold with temperatures –day time around 7C & night between 2-4C It’s the time of the year I like to get out and visits temples & shrines Last week [...]
In the second week of May, on the same day, two of my students brought me the results of their recent TOEIC tests The first was a 5pm & she had attained a score of 815 so I was thrilled for her and then in the following class my student at 6pm topped that with an 850 which [...]
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 [...]
Having used facebook (yes, they spell it without a capital “f”) and especially its use, and recent growth in Japan, as a subject for lessons in my English school, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi, I thought that it might prove to be a useful tool for my students in improving their English. Blogging regularly in English [...]
Well, that was it; the Golden Week holiday is but a memory, and I’m fully back in the swing of teaching at my English school, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi. But the memories are great, having spent several days with my wife, Megumi’s family in Matsue, Shimane Ken. As always, we were treated with great warmth [...]
When I first saw a picture of the “rumoured” iPhone 4 on the internet in the spring of 2010, it was love at first sight. I had never seen such a cool looking piece of kit. I had to have one. I had had an iPod Touch for about a year, but the moment that [...]
Since I started living and working in Kansai, I have made exploring the areas around my home in Nishinomiya and my English conversation school in Kawanishi a regular part of my life. Most of my travels have been along the Hankyu Takarazuka Main Line. The stations between Takarazuka and Kawanishi along this line are in a [...]
As more and more Japanese companies are now requiring both existing and future employees to achieve a significant T.O.E.I.C score, the Smith’s School of English website is providing T.O.E.I.C lessons for all concerned students of the English language. For the latest T.O.E.I.C lesson press HERE. These lessons are professionally constructed by Al Bartle from Smith’s [...]
FOR WORD LOVERS The following was sent to me as an unsolicited email & I hope that you and many of your students will appreciate it as much as I do To write with a broken pencil is pointless. When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate. A thief who stole a calendar [...]
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