Doing things with my students outside the classroom is always a lot of fun. A student of mine from Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi asked my Japanese wife and I if we wanted to go to an exhibition that was being held at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art （京都市美術館）in Kyoto with her. The exhibition, called [...]
At the last Smith’s seminar, I met John, the new owner of Smith’s School of English Kawanishi School. I suggested that we help each other out with flyers. He agreed to do that and so far we’ve done three flyer runs together, two in Kawanishi for his school and one in Tsukaguchi for my school, Smith’s School [...]
I live in Tsukaguchi, Amagasaki City, not far from my school, Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi School. Today as always on Wednesday mornings, I took an Amagasaki City bus to go to a Japanese lesson. The bus that I took (numbered “13″) runs between Hankyu Tsukaguchi Station (located near my school) and Hanshin Amagasaki Station. I caught the [...]
My favourite breakfast on Sunday, the day off for both my wife and I, is croissants and other pastries from a local bakery here in Tsukaguchi that I’ve written about before on the Soapbox. However, that shop is sometimes closed on Sundays. Last Sunday and today (another Sunday), it was closed so I and my [...]
Learning proper pronunciation is important for students to speak English well, such as learning the proper pronunciation of “r”, “v”, “er”, “f” and “th”. The Smith’s curriculum helps me do that. I showed my last student how to pronounce “er” and “ir” (which have the same pronunciation) and “th” while doing a Smith’s Routine called “The Restaurant”, [...]
Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi’s 2009 New Year event was lots of fun! To read about it, please click here. Enjoy! Derek Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi 月謝制英会話のスミス英会話塚口校 http://www.smithweb.co.jp/school/tsukaguchi.shtml 英会話尼崎市
Last year was a great year for me and my wife and this year promises to be another great one. Last year we bought our first investment property, a used house . It is currently being reformed and should be ready to rent out by the end of this month! Last Sunday, we went to see what [...]
In the entrance of my school above shoes shelves, there’s a flat surface. I keep flyers and brochures from local businesses which I do exchanges with there. Every year before Christmas, I put Christmas stuff there too. I have a mini Christmas tree with ornaments. I also have a small Santa Claus doll standing there. Last Friday, a [...]
Yesterday Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi School and Smith’s School of English Okamoto School had a joint event. We went to Tofukuji Temple in Kyoto to see the autumn leaf color change. We had a fantastic time! We were a total of 19 people. First we went to the temple. The temple and leaves were really nice and [...]
2008 is almost over. I want to finish it with a bang. I’ll be doing flyers every week and holding 2 events before we start the Smith’s Christmas Holiday on December 21st. I hope to get several new students before the end of the year. In addition to that I and my wife will be deciding when [...]
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