As Al from Smith’s School of English, Okamoto mentioned in an earlier post, we have been helping each other distribute flyers for both his school and mine, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校. In addition to this, we are now working on a series of TOEIC+ listening excercises on ssejapan’s youtube channel. You can see our [...]
My wife, めぐみ, and I were lucky enough to spend our last 12 years in England, before moving to Japan, in the delightful small town of Lymington. I can think of few more fortunate towns to live in; with its beautiful coast to the south, giving views across the Solent to the Isle of Wight, and the [...]
I often use “Let’s Talk” type question lists during lessons in my English conversation school, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校. Sometimes I base most of a lesson on these lists (some from the Smith’s School of English curriculum, and some lists that I have made myself to augment these), or sometimes to occupy the last [...]
Last Sunday I was off from my job teaching English in Japan to wonderful students at my English conversation school（英会話スクール）, Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi（スミス英会話塚口校） in Tsukaguchi（塚口）, Amagasaki City（尼崎市）, Hyogo Prefecture（兵庫県）, Japan. I and my wife went shopping at COSTCO in Amagasaki City. I love COSTCO（コストコ） in Japan, as I mentioned in an earlier post, Enjoying Shopping [...]
Smith’s School of English events are lots of fun, both for the students and the teachers. I always look forward to the next event, whether it is one for only my school, Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi（スミス英会話塚口校）, or a joint one with other Smith’s schools. The next event is a Christmas one and I am doing it jointly with two other schools, [...]
During the “Silver Week” holidays my wife, めぐみ and I visited Nara 奈良市, which is now very convenient for us as there are trains every 20 minutes from Nishinomiya Hanshin Station 西宮駅 direct to Nara.
When we first explored the Kobe 神戸市 area as possibly somewhere to live when we moved to Japan, Kitano-cho 北野町 immediately struck us as a very special sort of place.
In the “Let’s Talk” Question and Answer Item in the Smith’s School of English スミス英会話 curriculum, Question 8 asks: “Have you ever complained in a restaurant?” I have not yet had a student at my English school, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi, answer this in the affirmative, and I can’t remember complaining in a restaurant myself (at least [...]
I have just finished reading the “Rabbit” tetralogy by John Updike. At over 1500 pages, this had been a marathon read. I had read the first of the four novels, Rabbit Run, as a young man, but had not read any other of his works since, before I tackled reading the whole set a little earlier [...]
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