I enjoy going to a movie theater in Japan every now and then when a movie that I want to see movie comes out. I either go with my Japanese wife, or with her and one of my students from my English conversation school (英会話), Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話塚口校)located in Tsukaguchi (塚口), Amagasaki City […]
Cavity-Prevention Day
June 4th is Cavity-Prevention Day or Tooth Decay Prevention Day, the start of Dental Hygiene Week in Japan. For explanations, please click here and also here. I went to the dentist’s on June 4th to get my teeth cleaned. My dental hygienist told me that it was Cavity-Prevention Day, so I was lucky. Without knowing it, I’d made an appointment for a cleaning […]
Showing students how to pronounce English properly 2
In an earlier posting of mine, “Showing students how to pronounce English properly”, I wrote about how I showed a student of mine how to properly pronounce the sounds “er” (as in “waiter”) and “ir” (as in “birthday”), as well as “th” (as in “the”) using the Smith’s curriculum. You can read about it by clicking […]