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 There is an upcoming change in Japan which is causing a great deal of anxiety among teachers at the Japanese public elementary school level. Do you know what I am referring to? （大阪 公立 小学校 英語 ２０１１年） The new Japanese “Course of Study” for education goes into effect soon and one of the new classes, officially named [...]
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 Barb Dwyer, Terry Bull, Chris Cross… Know anybody by these names? If so, then you may know some of the people who have been given some of “The Most Unfortunate Names” in England and the United States. How about Dr Payne, Anna Prentice or Carrie Oakey? Check out this site and have some fun [...]
スミス英会話堺東・なかもず校講師が書いた記事。日本語のメインサイトはこちら→(スミス英会話堺東校)(スミス英会話なかもず校) Last Sunday was really great weather in the Semboku(泉北) area of Sakai City(堺市). My wife and son decided to go for a walk to a park that I had heard about in my English conversation lessons at Smith’s School of English Nakamozu(スミス英会話 なかもず校). Many of my students live in the Semboku area, and have told [...]
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 Book stores (本屋、書店) are wonderful places; even in this age of electronic media, nothing can replace some quiet time spent browsing through books at your local book store. For me, I don’t think ebooks will ever replace the feeling of flipping through a book while relaxing on a sofa. Touching a panel just doesn’t [...]
I love teaching the students at my English school, Smith’s School of English, Tsuruhashi about my country and its culture. The Vancouver Olympics have given me a great opportunity to share all the wonderful things that are currently happening in my hometown, and my students can relate because they see a lot of the images [...]
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 Everyone likes a good movie, right? Sometimes a great movie comes along that gets everybody talking! Some of my fellow franchisees have mentioned some good movies recently here on the Smiths School of English Soapbox. We have a very comfortable movie theater here close to Smiths School of English in Fuse Higashi-Osaka which my [...]
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 I read a story this morning in the Mainichi Daily which made me smile, and I thought I would share it with you. It was a story about a junior high school girl in Saitama Prefecture who was determined to take a high school entrance exam and would not let anything stand in her [...]
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 I’ve read some interesting articles here recently about the various iPhone applications some people have found useful or entertaining to use and in that same vien, I thought I would introduce one that I have been using for some time and that my students have also found very useful. Perhaps some of you are [...]
スミス英会話堺東・なかもず校講師が書いた記事。日本語のメインサイトはこちら→(スミス英会話堺東校)(スミス英会話なかもず校) I usually start the year with a New Years Resolutions lesson for all of my students throughout January. Hearing my students’ plans and goals for the coming year allows me to really connect with them on a personal level. Something that the teacher/owners in the Smith’s School of English franchise system really enjoy being [...]
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 After reading Les’s article just earlier about the difficulty students sometimes have with the disappearing “H” and also the various contractions and reductions we often use in spoken English I was reminded of the special focus I place on teaching and stressing some of these characteristics of spoken English in the pronunciation course at [...]
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