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	<title>Smith&#039;s School of English Soap Box &#187; Free Advice English Schools</title>
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		<title>Sweaters are Back!</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201111/23/sweaters-are-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201111/23/sweaters-are-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English School Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Advice English Schools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hi All- Head office is bringing back the blue sweater. A new order is being placed as  we speak- so send in your order and stay warm this winter in style. We&#8217;ve ordered 4 for Otsu school. Design is different than before- better if you ask me. Contact head office if you have questions. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Themed Flyers</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201111/17/christmas-themed-flyers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201111/17/christmas-themed-flyers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English School Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi All- there&#8217;s just enought time before we break for the holidays to put out an order&#8217;s worth of flyers. Last year the head office staff and the teachers here at Smith&#8217;s School of English Otsu came up with a christmas design for the flyers. It&#8217;s a simple 2-colour back design with gessha-chan in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smith&#8217;s School of English Lessons Are Great Value!</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201105/12/smiths-school-of-english-lessons-are-great-value/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201105/12/smiths-school-of-english-lessons-are-great-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 08:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Advice English Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SSE Kotoen Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[english in japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[仁川]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[月謝制のスミス英会話]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=12031</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, now is a good time to get out there and promote.  Spring has come I think!  And Typhoon number 1 is almost by us so we should see some nice weather for a while.  Telephones will ring like mad so get out there and get some flyers out! Every once in a while you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Way to Visualize</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201010/20/new-way-to-visualize/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201010/20/new-way-to-visualize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>les</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Advice English Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SSE Ikoma]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=10855</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of self help gurus out there are big on affirmations, and tell us to keep using positive affirmations. I love to help  myself, so I started using them years ago.  I still do, but they are certainly the pale cousins to visualization.  So I started using visualization a while back too.  But I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fresh and Fascinating</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201003/12/fresh-and-fascinating/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201003/12/fresh-and-fascinating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Lesson Plans]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=8234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lesson Sandwich</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201003/09/the-lesson-sandwich/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201003/09/the-lesson-sandwich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>les</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Lesson Plans]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=8205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Wait a minute,&#8221; I said to my friend, &#8220;How is the start of an Smith&#8217;s lesson like a piece of bread?&#8221; &#8220;Well, you have to tell the students what the lesson is going to be about, right? That&#8217;s what the bread does. It reminds people to get ready to eat. Without it, people are still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Fiction</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201003/02/science-fiction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201003/02/science-fiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Lesson Plans]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=8088</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;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&#8217;t know them. How brilliant to put a face to the name. Then a company called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Reward of All &#8211; 1 Year On</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201002/28/the-greatest-reward-of-all-1-year-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201002/28/the-greatest-reward-of-all-1-year-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English School Articles]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=8056</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been the franchisee and teacher of Smith&#8217;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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading リーディング- An Effective Homework Practice</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201002/22/reading-%e3%83%aa%e3%83%bc%e3%83%87%e3%82%a3%e3%83%b3%e3%82%b0-an-effective-homework-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201002/22/reading-%e3%83%aa%e3%83%bc%e3%83%87%e3%82%a3%e3%83%b3%e3%82%b0-an-effective-homework-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Musgrave</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=7928</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently there have been some articles written on the Soapbox about different approaches to homework. I agree with the other Smith&#8217;s Ekaiwa Franchise スミス英会話teachers about the importance of a little practice each day to maximise the students who are studying English in Japan.You can read about some of the other homework suggestions here&#8230;.  toeic-listening-practice-videos diaries   Something that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3D TV &#8211; in TOEIC and Reality</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201002/21/3d-tv-in-toeic-and-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201002/21/3d-tv-in-toeic-and-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=7895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Al, of Smith&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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