Category Archives: the basics

Warm-up and an Easy Start, Keys to Lesson Success

Upon entering an English school, students are greeted with a slew of standard English greetings. From the simple “Hello” and “How are you?” to the more colloquial “What’s new?” or “How ya going mate?”, students are immediately immersed in English. English classrooms are the place for English immersion: the walls have English posters, the book [...]

How I Teach Kids ‘I have…’

I love to teach kids but it is certainly different from adults in some (not all) ways.  To begin with, they do not have any English experience.  Next, they have shallower experience levels than adults.  But they also are more inclined to try to guess what you want them to do.  You will find using [...]

Flexibility of SSE Curriculum

Well, another month has passed; I have now been the owner of Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校 for 3 months, and I find myself in a reflective mood again. I have been thinking how easy I now find it to adapt lessons from most parts of the SSE curriculum to suit students of different levels. Again I [...]

The poster

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After spending a bit of time and money on the new location, I wanted to make a bit of a splash on the promotional front. I did this by commissioning a new poster, and found two ways to display it.

Using the Whiteboard スミス英会話大津

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My love for the whiteboard has been growing ever since I started at Smith’s School of English in Ohtsu (スミス英会話大津). The Smith’s curriculum encourages using the whiteboard and through the soapbox and curriculum seminars I have learned a variety of ways of using the whiteboard to maximize student learning potential and also mix things up, making [...]

Simple Vocabulary Review Technique スミス英会話大津

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Easy planning, Quick set-up, Great lesson: Reviewing Vocabulary.
Reviewing an old vocabulary lesson or a set of previously learned vおcabulary is an easy to plan, quick to set-up and important lesson for language students of all levels. Teachers who keep good files should have no problem doing vocabulary review regularly. Here is a simple technique for quick [...]

Smith’s School of English – Normal Course スミス英会話 ノーマルコース

When I hear that a new student has decided to join the ranks of Sakai Higashi Smith’s school, it is always great news. However, I am extra pleased if they decide to take the “normal” course of study. I have found that my students who have committed to this course are the students who improve [...]

Maximizing Student Learning Potential 生徒の習得率を最大限にする

Yesterday a student kindly gave me a book of affirmations written in both English and Japanese. I had a quick flick through the book and it got me thinking that it would be good to be able to share these writings with all of my students. So I have decided to copy, laminate and display [...]

Notes on Note taking, Learning English スミス英会話大津膳所石山

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Keen and creative students can both impress and inspire. As well as teaching students new things about the English language and coaching them to become confident using English, part of our job is to

How to Teach Students of Different Levels (Routine 4) スミス英会話大津

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Have you ever struggled with having 2 students of obviously different ability level? Today I had a lesson with a low orange (mid-level beginner) student and a high red (high-level mid-range) student. The lower level student is a restaurant manager who studies for fun and has been studying with us for only 3 months; the [...]

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