Category Archives: English Lesson Plans

Discussions of lesson plan theory and application.

スミス英会話高円寺 Flying High

During last week another birthday crept up on me and so my son planned, for Sunday (my next  day off ) a day that I will always, Alzheimer’s free, remember.
The day kicked off at about 10:40 when he came to the school and collected me. We quickly set off for Koenji station, which I happen to know [...]

Fresh and Fascinating

I recently did a soapbox posting about using a contemporary event with great popular appeal as the subject of a lesson at my English conversation school 英会話, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校. This made for a really successful and very popular lesson. My lesson featuring the (not quite total) success of Japanese figure skater Mao Asada at [...]

The Lesson Sandwich

“Wait a minute,” I said to my friend, “How is the start of an Smith’s lesson like a piece of bread?”

スミス英会話 布施・東大阪 What’s in a name?

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
Barb Dwyer, Terry Bull, Chris Cross…
Know anybody by these names? If so, then you may know some of the people who have been given some of “The Most Unfortunate Names” in England and the United States.
How about Dr Payne, Anna Prentice or Carrie Oakey?
Check out this site and have some fun with your students!
http://www.thebabywebsite.com/article.1792.Silly_Names.htm [...]

スミス 英会話 布施・東大阪 本屋・書店 いくぞー(To the book store!)

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 feel [...]

Learn English Vocabulary

I was just thinking about how to learn English vocabulary. I like to give advice on how to study here in Ikoma (生駒).  I thought about using software like Supermemo, or Anki.  None of my students know about this software, but it is mostly English.  I wonder if there is any similar software in Japanese [...]

Science Fiction

It’s not so long ago that science fiction movies showed such an outrageously modern instrument as a video phone. I remember thinking how cool it would be to see the person that you were talking to, especially if you didn’t know them. How brilliant to put a face to the name. Then a company called [...]

Keeping it Fresh

I’m writing this sitting in the classroom at my English conversation school Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校 waiting for my next student to turn up.
Yesterday, Asada Mao won a silver medal in the women’s figure-skating at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Today I have already used an exercise, based on an article about the final from the [...]

Warm-up and an Easy Start, Keys to Lesson Success

Upon entering an English school, students are greeted with a slew of standard English greetings. From the simple “Hello” and “How are you?” to the more colloquial “What’s new?” or “How ya going mate?”, students are immediately immersed in English. English classrooms are the place for English immersion: the walls have English posters, the book [...]

3D TV – in TOEIC and Reality

Al, of Smith’s School of English, Okamoto 英会話岡本, and I have recently been working together on some TOEIC listening excercises on the smithweb.co.jp website. Our latest effort, yet to be published, relates to the launch of 3D television, and more specifically, to Japanese manufacturers position in this new market sector. I am looking forward to using this [...]

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