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Community Softball in Japan

スミス英会話大津の日本語のサイトはここです。スミス英会話上新庄校の日本語のサイトはここです。 千晴の部屋はここで す。英会話無料レッスンはここです。 Adding another great event to the ever-growing list of fantastic community events happening in Japan: Community Softball! Although we have a standard bulletin board in our community, we also have a small clipboard version which circulates. A few weeks ago the

A Canadian in Japan: My First Time in Tokyo Day 3

Continuation of A Canadian in Japan: My First Time in Tokyo Day 1 and My First Time in Tokyo Day 2 I needed to get a new Canadian passport, so I decided to make the trip to Tokyo and get it done in person. I had never been to Tokyo and so I was quite [...]

A Canadian in Japan: My First Time in Tokyo Day 2

Continuation of A Canadian in Japan: My First Time in Tokyo Day 1 I needed to get a new Canadian passport, so I decided to make the trip to Tokyo and get it done in person. I had never been to Tokyo and so I was quite excited. I live in Ohtsu, which is a [...]

A Canadian in Japan: My First Time in Tokyo Day 1

I needed to get a new Canadian passport, so I decided to make the trip to Tokyo and get it done in person. I had never been to Tokyo and so I was quite excited. I live in Ohtsu, which is a medium size city in Shiga prefecture, which is a fairly quiet, rural area. [...]

Beautiful British Columbia “Calling From The Coast: Exploring BC’s Wild Coast through video”

Photography is a new hobby of mine. It started about 2 years ago when I bought a 1982 Canon AL-1 with a 35-70mm zoom lens. Since then I have tried and tried and tried to improve my photography skills. Although I do believe I am improving, I’m still lucky to get 3 good pictures out [...]

Bridging IN and OUT of Routine 1

I love Routine 1. I have taught many different curriculums in Japan, and I can confidently say “I LOVE routine 1″. Recently I have been focusing on expanding students’ understanding and usage of the routine 1 questions. I have been working on a ten lesson rotation, planning 1 question from routine 1 and 1 [bridged] [...]

Easiest Business to Run… Ever?

Last Friday at 3:30 I was teaching a class when a young man walked into my school. I excused myself from my lesson for less than the 30 seconds it took to offer him a seat on the sofa, a cold cup of tea, and to pass him off to my staff at head office. [...]

Record Month at Smith’s School of English Ohtsu

In January I set a goal for myself and Smith’s School of English Ohtsu: “In 2009, I will improve on ALL of the “local promotion numbers” from 2008″ What this means is that if we had an advertising budget of say 20$ in January 2008, we would increase that number in January of 2009 to [...]

Using the Whiteboard スミス英会話大津

スミス英会話大津校の日本語のサイトはこちら 英会話無料レッスンはこちら 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 [...]

“Hands on” English スミス英会話大津

スミス英会話大津日本語のサイトはここです。 Anything out of the ordinary is fun for students. Some of my favourite lessons are ones that can be adapted to having the student’s using the white board or doing something hands on. Moving around the classroom, using their eyes or their hands or their actions. Role plays are an obvious way to do [...]

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