Category Archives: a reward in itself

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 Greatest Reward of All – 1 Year On

I have been the franchisee and teacher of Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校 for one year today!!!!!!!!
I have always loved languages, especially English, so it is really rewarding being able to earn my living teaching my favourite language at my own English conversation school. I always enjoy my lessons with my very special students, especially [...]

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 [...]

スミス英会話鶴橋校:The Colours of Canada

I love teaching the students at my English school, Smith’s School of English, Tsuruhashi about my country and its culture.  The Vancouver Olympics  have given me a great opportunity to share all the wonderful things that are currently happening in my hometown, and my students can relate because they see a lot of the images [...]

Teachers Say “Thank You”

Valentine’s Day is always a humble experience for Smith’s Eikaiwa Nakamozu and Smith’s School of English Sakai Higashi teachers. As we all know there is strong culture of gift giving in Japan and Valentines is no exception. We received many delicious chocolate sweets for which we are very grateful. Some of them were even homemade, yummy! I [...]

スミス英会話高円寺 Great Feedback

I had my fourth lesson with a student who started man to man (one on one) lessons at my Smith’s School of English in Koenji (スミス英会話高円寺 ) last Saturday week. The original purpose for her to commence English lessons at my monthly pay English conversation school (英会話月謝制) was that she had a job interview [...]

TOEIC+ Listening Practice Videos

I have been reading the posts here and I am so impressed with so many of them. We really have a great team at Smith’s School of English.
Recently John Coleman (See his post on the movie “Invictus“) and I are collaborating on some TOEIC listening practice videos for the Smithweb site. We have [...]

INVICTUS – A Journey to my Birthplace

Recently, one of my students at my English conversation school 英会話, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校, mentioned to me that the movie Invictus had been released in Japan, and that she was keen to see it. She told me about this because I was born and brought up in South Africa, and Invictus is the [...]

Even more working together

As Al from Smith’s School of English, Okamoto mentioned in an earlier post, we have been helping each other distribute flyers for both his school and mine, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校.

In addition to this, we are now working on a series of TOEIC+ listening excercises on ssejapan’s youtube channel. You can see our first [...]

スミス英会話鶴橋校:Triple Axels and Double Toe Loops in Tsuruhashi

One of the great things about being situated in Tsuruhashi is it’s proximity to so many great venues.  Now, I’m not just talking about all the wonderful Yaki-niku restaurants in the area, as they tend to “smell” for themselves.  I’m talking about quite the opposite.  Stuff that is good for your heart, i.e.  physical activity!  [...]

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