Category Archives: English Lesson Plans

Discussions of lesson plan theory and application.

Vocabulary Lessons are Fun Too!

August 17, 2010 – 4:51 am

Last week I had three students and decided to use the vocabulary lessons. These are an interesting part of the Smith’s curriculum.  They consist of many units each comprising 12 words. The words are random and unrelated for the most part.  Some are nouns.  Some are verbs and some are adjectives.  Some can be used [...]

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We are Working Hard and So are Our Students!

August 13, 2010 – 6:46 am

This week one of my students showed up and showed me her new homework folder. Since she started in April she has been diligently doing the homework, watching the videos and preparing for the lesson.  She has saved all the homework sheets in this new folder. She has filled up this folder and will start [...]

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スミス英会話高円寺 A Royal Experience

June 2, 2010 – 7:24 pm

As you know we Smith’s School of English coaches of communicative confidence regularly have fun meeting and greeting students and prospective students in the morning. Over a period of time many things happen that make the start to our day quite often an unique experience and certainly one that is never mundane.
I had an even [...]

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スミス英会話高円寺 What is an Oxymoron?

May 15, 2010 – 6:32 pm

I recently received an unsolicited email in which there was a list of oxymorons (or oxymora) and it prompted me to share them with my ESL pupils at Smith’s School of English in Koenji part of the Smith’s School of English,pay by the month, franchise English conversation schools throughout Japan.
An oxymoron is a figure [...]

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スミス英会話高円寺 WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

May 10, 2010 – 9:55 pm

One day during the Golden Week holidays I decided to go to Koenji railway station and catch up with some of the locals and some students who were still working. I usually wake up early, cannot sleep in, and I needed some exercise so why not say “good morning have a nice day” and kill [...]

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スミス英会話高円寺 Temples of Tokyo – Hanazono Shrine

April 16, 2010 – 3:37 am

Hanazono Shrine is in Shinjuku on Yasakuni Dori . It is is tucked away behind some buildings and is painted bright red and white.- the colours of the fox. To get to it you walk down a narrow lane under numerous red torii. This shrine is where businessmen and women pray for the success of [...]

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The Kansai Boat Show

March 28, 2010 – 3:45 am

This weekend saw the arrival (and departure) of the Kansai Boat Show at Shin Nishinomiya Yacht Harbour in Nishinomiyahama 西宮浜, where I have lived since I moved from England to Japan just over 2 years ago. I could see the preparations for the show from my balcony, and really looked forward to making a visit.
For [...]

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Coming Soon! In-class lessons related to the weekly online TOEIC Listening Lessons!

March 27, 2010 – 11:05 pm

John Coleman, the owner and head teacher of the Kawanishi Smith’s School of English and I (Al Bartle of Smith’s School of English – Okamoto) have been working hard to make TOEIC Part 3 type listening lessons for the Smith’s main site. So far we have made 11 lessons. You can see the free online [...]

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スミス英会話高円寺 The Power of Dogu

March 23, 2010 – 4:41 pm

I have become a fan of the Tokyo National Museum and the other museums that are found throughout Ueno Park – Japan’s first public city park that was founded in 1873. They regularly have exciting exhibitions that feature unique antique treasures and naturally they also have regular exhibitions which can be found at this webpage.
I [...]

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スミス英会話提供の無料TOEICレッスン (Free online TOEIC Listening Lessons from Smith’s School of English)

March 21, 2010 – 7:19 pm

Smith’s School of English is now providing free online listening lessons for students to practice over and over at home. There are three ways to access these videos.

From the Main Site TOEIC Lesson Page　無料TOEICレッスン
From the Japanese Blog 無料オンラインTOEICレッスン
From the Smith’s School of English YouTube Channel: ssejapan

Listening practice is good for all students but the [...]

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