Tag Archives: 英語

スミス英会話 布施・東大阪 What’s in a name?

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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 with your students!
http://www.thebabywebsite.com/article.1792.Silly_Names.htm [...]

スミス 英会話 布施・東大阪 本屋・書店 いくぞー(To the book store!)

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 feel [...]

スミス英会話 布施 ラインシネマ10 映画館 (Movies for Eikaiwa Lesson Plan)

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 students often go [...]

スミス英会話 布施・東大阪: 囲碁 棋士試験合格 (Youngest professional “Go” player in history)

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 another heart-warming story a few days ago in the Mainichi Daily which described the dedication of an 11 year old elementary school girl from Tokyo who became the youngest professional “Go” (Japanese board game) player in history.  She has broken a record which was set back in 1968 by a South Korean player. [...]

スミス英会話 布施・東大阪: High School Entrance Exam Story (高校入学試験)

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 way.  [...]

スミス英会話 布施・東大阪: ソフトバンクiPhone無料英語辞書アプリ Kotoba

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 already familiar [...]

Smith’s Eikaiwa Sakai Higashi and Smith’s Eikaiwa Nakamozu New Years Resolutions.

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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 able [...]

スミス英会話 布施・東大阪: Pronunciation Course and Contractions (短期発音コース)

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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 my [...]

our heritage

When I was a young boy I played with some toy tanks and trucks that I later learned had been my grandfather’s toys. My father had then played with them as a kid and I had inherited them. I still have them today and was able to find them in my room when I went [...]

adventure

When I ask students why they want to learn English a common response is because they want to be able to watch movies without subtitles. When I ask those students who their favorite actor one name always comes up – Johnny Depp. One of my students is such an avid fan that she even traveled [...]

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