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

February 11, 2010 – 7:03 pm

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 [...]

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

November 8, 2008 – 7:39 pm

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 [...]

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A Student Who Enjoys Her Job!

June 7, 2008 – 1:24 am

My man-to-man student at noon on Saturdays is always so pleasant and fun to coach. She works for a major international transportation company and just got back from a visit to Shanghai. She met with her company staff there and had some very good meetings. She got back last night at 8:00 p.m. and worked [...]

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Work…. a useful word!

May 15, 2008 – 9:32 pm

With my students last night I decided to check if they understood the meaning of the phrase “the medicine didn’t work”. As I suspected, they did not really understand it. I then gave some examples of how it can be used in place of “it was not effective”. I also introduced the phrases “it worked [...]

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