A question that should come up but often doesn’t is how often to practise listening. Many students have bad habits from high school or university days. They used to play, play, play, and then study hard for a long intense period. This is the worst way to study. I once heard that you could shut [...]
In our first article we discussed what materials we need to do listening practise. We briefly mentioned two kinds of listening practise: intensive and extensive. We can find the stages of listening practise in intensive listening. Because listening practise has more stages than most people think, we can do some unusual things in our listening [...]
If you are reading this article, you probably already have the main tool you need to practise listening: a computer. With a connection to the internet, you can access and download f sound files for listening practise. The typical sound file is in MP3 format. This gives good sound quality, and smaller file sizes (fast [...]
Sometimes when I teach English here at Smith School of English in Ikoma, students ask if there is a special way to be polite in English, like there is in Japanese. I used to have trouble answering them. I started to mention ‘would’ or ‘could’ but they say those are not only for politeness. And [...]
I love to teach using the Smith’s School of English here at my Smith’s school in Ikoma. It develops beautifully, hits the real English that students need, and is designed to be easy to implement. And sometimes, near the end of the lesson, we have a few moments for some relaxed conversation after we have [...]
What is the Big Difference Between it and Other Self Help Books?
The biggest difference for me between this book and other self help books of personal growth books is that…
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 [...]
A Winning Book II I wrote earlier about Dr Kerry Spackman’s book “The Winner’s Bible“. In it, he directs you, the reader to make your own Winner’s Bible. That is the key, he believes, to making lasting and even permanent change in your brain. You see, lots of other authors tell you this and that, and [...]
Well the results are in now, and here at Ikoma Smith’s School of English. We are in a winning situation. All the kids who wrote the listening test passed, for a 100% pass rate. I am amazed at my students, they really seem to like the tests. some of the kids ask their parents very [...]
Have you ever noticed how some students ask you to repeat what you say much more frequently than other students? If you’re like me…
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