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My Kind of Town part 3

  BMX flying One aspect of Nishinomiyahama 西宮浜, where I have lived for almost a year and a half, that I have not mentioned before in this series is the variety of sports and leisure activities that go on there almost throughout the year. There is always so much going on both on land and [...]

INVITATION – SSE Tsukaguchi and Kawanishi Event

Derek of Smith’s School of English, Tsukaguchi スミス英会話 塚口校 and I (John) of Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話 川西校 have arranged an event for 28 June 2009. We know that this is short notice, but we wanted to do it before the weather gets too hot. We invite any Smith’s School that would like to join us to come along. [...]

Living Japan

  Recently I have used a very special book that I own as a subject for free conversation with some of my students at Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話 川西校. This book is called LIVING JAPAN and is by Donald Keene, a world renowned expert on Japan, its culture and literature. This book contains many chapters [...]

PROMOTIONAL GEAR

With the change of season, there has been quite a lot written recently about the comfort of various items of Smith’s School of English promotional clothing. What I want to stress is just how important it is to wear these items, and not just when handing out flyers. Last Friday I went into my favourite [...]

スミス英会話高円寺 Entertaining a Foreigner – Reviewed

CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN SHINJUKU GYOENMAE Last month I discussed how well the Smith’s School of English curriculum lesson, “Entertaining a Foreigner”, is always well received by the Smith’s School of English Koenji students. I have recently conducted follow up lessons relative to “Entertaining a Foreigner” with most of the students who had participated in the [...]

’09 Coffee Conversation Club – Sakai Higashi

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)      Something occurred to me during our ’08 Christmas party. I was pleasantly surprised to see students of all levels giving it there best to chat away in English to each other. I was proud to see some of the lower levels mixing it with the higher levels.  I realized that most of [...]

Joint Smith’s autumn leaf color change event in Kyoto  スミス英会話ジョイントイベント -紅葉の京都-

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 [...]

スミス英会話高円寺 Revision is Rewarded.

The following is a note that I gave to some of my students and as I have seen a marked improvement in the English being used during the lessons I felt that I should share it with you. A Guide to Improving your English Ability. There are many elements that need to be mastered in [...]

生徒もフレ‐ズ・レッスンが作れます Students Can Help to Create Phrase Lessons!

In a previous post Edward explained how to use the Phrase cards to teach the phrases.  As Edward explained, you create a sort of short story which uses the phrases.  Actually, we have already created a large number of these, but there are still many more to create.  Recently I enlisted the help of one [...]

Eiken – Sakai Higashi

Congratulations to all the students at Smith’s School of English Sakai Higashi who completed their Eiken level examinations. We are very proud to announce that all the Smith’s students were successful in achieving their levels. The levels include Eiken Level 1, 2, 3 and also the Kid’s level of Gold, Silver and Bronze. All the [...]

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