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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’m sure most of you are familiar with the “News” lesson in the Pre-Build Up section of our Smiths School of English curriculum. It’s a fun lesson and flexible enough that you can tweak it to suit various levels. I particularly like the second half of the lesson plan where students are encouraged to [...]
One of the great things about being situated in Tsuruhashi is it’s proximity to so many great venues. Now, I’m not just talking about all the wonderful Yaki-niku restaurants in the area, as they tend to “smell” for themselves. I’m talking about quite the opposite. Stuff that is good for your heart, i.e. physical activity! [...]
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