August 30, 2010 – 1:00 am
At Smith’s School English in Okamoto スミス英会話岡本校, in two weeks we will be exploring the question of which Beatle was the most prolific and best songwriter, McCartney or Lennon. There was a great post on Yahoo about it. ‘Was it John or Paul?’
As you may remember
By Al Bartle
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Also posted in English School Articles, Franchise Owners' Speak, Living in Japan, SSE Okamoto Corner, english in japan, my high level students, my passion: language, rewarding job change, students keep coming, teaching: why i do it
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Tagged John Lennon, Paul McCartney, TOEIC, Toeic Score, TOEIC 試験, TOEIC 上達
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August 24, 2010 – 12:54 am
This morning while distributing flyers to promote my English school in Kobe (スミス英会話岡本校） I talked to one woman on the street near the station who spoke English quite well. She said in English that I was ‘exaggerating’ when I commented that she spoke English well. Again, as has happened many times recently, I realized that [...]
By Al Bartle
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Also posted in English School Articles, Franchise Owners' Speak, Living in Japan, SSE Okamoto Corner, english in japan, my high level students, my passion: language, students keep coming, teaching: why i do it
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Tagged English in Japan, Fast Retailing, Rakuten, Smith's School of English, TOEIC exam, TOEIC listening, TOEIC リスニング, TOEIC 試験, TOEIC 上達, Uniqlo, スミス英会話, 英会話、成績、枚方、英語、月謝制、教室、TOEIC
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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 [...]
By Al Bartle
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Also posted in English Lesson Plans, English School Articles, Franchise Owners' Speak, Living in Japan, SSE Okamoto Corner, a reward in itself, my high level students, my passion: language, students keep coming, teaching: why i do it
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Tagged English Vocabulary Lessons, Smith's School of English, スミス英会話, 他の学校と違う英会話学校, 本当の英会話, 楽しい英会話, 英語上達
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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 [...]
By Al Bartle
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Also posted in English Lesson Plans, English School Articles, SSE Okamoto Corner, english in japan, my high level students, students keep coming, teaching: why i do it
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Tagged Centenarians, TOEIC リスニング, TOEIC 試験, TOEIC 上達, スミス英会話, スミス英会話大津校, スミス英会話川西校
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Hi Everyone,
I found this fun video on YouTube. Actually I think it can be fun for learning English. This video is from Michelle Phan, a Vietnamese makeup artist. She has her own channel and it is quite interesting. She is quite an artist. But I think you can use her videos to practice listening. For [...]
It is time for another joint Smith’s School of English Nakamozu and Smith’s School of English Sakai Higashi BBQ event. The BBQ will be held in Oizumi Ryokuchi, the same location that all of our BBQ’s have been held over the last few years. Oizumi Ryokuchi(大泉緑地公園) . The Park is a large, forested park with 320,000 trees. [...]
By Tim Musgrave
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Also posted in English School Articles, Living in Japan, SSE Nakamozu Corner, SSE Sakai Higashi Corner
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Tagged Oizumi Ryokuchi, Smith's School of English, Smith's School of English Nakamozu, Smith's School of English Sakai Higashi, 大泉緑地公園, 月謝制のスミス英会話 なかもず校, 月謝制のスミス英会話 堺東校, 桜広場
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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
If asked what brought me to Japan, there are lots of answers as Japan culture is very diverse and interesting. But the main reason for me coming to Japan was and still is to learn Gagaku (雅楽). Starting about ten years ago with the first Gagaku concert of the Gagaku club of at the [...]
By Sven
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Also posted in Living in Japan, SSE Fuse Corner
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Tagged bugagku, Gagaku, Genji, heianjidai, hichiriki, Japan, tradition, traditional, traditional Japan, ひがしおおさかし, スミス英会話, 布施, 平安, 源氏, 篳篥, 舞楽, 英会話, 雅楽
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This week, which was quite busy with a few trials, walk-in inquiries and the usual full load of lessons, I got a special surprise. When I called in to ask about a student’s lesson, I was informed that a student who had taken a trial at Smith’s School of English -Fukushima (スミス英会話福島校）had decided to join [...]
By Al Bartle
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Also posted in English School Articles, Fair to teachers, Franchise Owners' Speak, Living in Japan, New start up or franchise?, SSE Okamoto Corner, a look back, a reward in itself, english in japan, my high level students, my passion: language, rewarding job change, students keep coming, teaching: why i do it
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Tagged franchise, Franchise English Schools, Smith's School of English, Smith's School of English Okamoto, TEAM, スミス英会話岡本校, スミス英会話福島校
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I was going through some old photos the other day and found this photo of my son. It was taken while visiting Canada on a holiday to meet his relatives. My son, Tyler, who was a little over a year old at the time called 911, (110/119 in Japan) while playing with the phone. My [...]
I recently received a few bottles of a special beer from my student. She brought them back from Hokkaido. The beer is a micro-brew made using iceberg water. It is called Okhotsk Blue.
The Okhotsk Blue Draft is one of the most unique beers around, counting a couple of unusual ingredients into its [...]