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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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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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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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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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 [...]
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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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 want to thank ALL of the students at my school, Smith’s School of English Otsu. That’s right. A big thank you to all of you. You are all wonderful, and you make me feel proud to be an English teacher. Proud to be YOUR English teacher. As an English teacher I am happy every time a [...]
In class today we were talking about success. I asked a student a very direct question: “What is success?” This stumped her for a minute before she went on to give her own, very clear, definition. I explained to her that when we do this it’s called a “working definition” and that it is often [...]
Last week, John of the Kawanishi School and I went to Ashiya to find a coffee shop and found a nice Italian style shop with outside seating. With the nice weather these days and nice artistic cafe late (this one had the patter of a leaf in the froth), we could really enjoy a nice [...]
By Al Bartle
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Tagged Great English School, Living in Japan, TOEIC 試験, スミス英会話、月謝制英会話、英会話岡本、スミス英会話岡本校、Smith's School of English, スミス英会話、楽しい英会話, 一味違う英会話, 本当に違う英会話, 英会話住吉, 英会話川西校, 英会話池田, 英会話甲南山手, 英会話芦屋
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As many of you know, I used to work in the electronics industry. I worked as an engineer and manager for Alpine Electronics, Oki Electric and Mitsubishi Electric in the US and Japan. Recently John Coleman and I have been making many videos and in-class lessons for our students and for Smith’s Schools [...]
By Al Bartle
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Tagged Alpine Electronics, TOEIC, TOEIC 試験, 宮本茂, 英会話
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