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Blog, English School Articles · February 27, 2022

Talking English And Exploring The World

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Explore the world

Past two years SSE Katsura travel loving students have been putting their travel plans on hold due to the lack of opportunities to go abroad. However, as members of our English conversation school they continue having fun exploring the world. “How?” you may ask. Simply by coming to the classroom and talking to each other about travel experiences. Often discussing their future journey plans.

Student to student talk about a trip to Croatia

Many students like to show their travel photos from abroad and also Japan. We love talking about interesting places in Japan. Student to student talking time during these lessons has become all time high. Lots of stimulating talk and questions. The best way to practice conversation skills while focusing on real life experiences. Talking about hotels, restaurants, weather and various holiday activities.

One student went even further and started translating his vast travel journal into English. His dedication to this project is truly inspiring. As a result, with each new travelogue his English is quickly improving. Marvelous! You can enjoy his wonderful photos and travelogue from South America here.

Tom’s adventure in Egypt

Enjoy the adventure

During the lesson I give students space to talk to each other. I’m only assisting with finding accurate English words and helping with long sentences. Recently, I was asked by a student about the English word ‘adventure’. To elicit some useful vocabulary I used my experience and photos from a trip to Egypt. We talked about ‘camel riding’, ‘coral snorkeling’ and ‘sand dune quad bikes’. This was also big fun for me because I had the opportunity use my own travels as a part of the conversation.


Exploring the world from SSE Katsura classroom

Let’s talk

Conversation lessons based on useful experiences in our lives is the best way to learn English language. Therefore we like to use travel as a positive conversation topic and we continue enjoying this way of learning. So let’s talk English!

Tom, SSE Katsura.

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  1. Martin Werner Zander says

    February 27, 2022 at 8:58 pm

    Excellent Tom, thank you for the nice read.

    Reply
    • Tom says

      February 28, 2022 at 9:16 am

      Thank you for reading, Martin. Very nice.

      Reply
  2. les says

    February 27, 2022 at 11:36 pm

    Wow Tom! I went to the link that you suggested here. She did a great job putting up that page in English! Give her a pat on the back from me.

    Reply
    • Tom says

      February 28, 2022 at 9:15 am

      Thank you Les. I will pass your message to HIM. You should check his other travelogues on that site. Just amazing.

      Reply
  3. Mark Smith says

    February 28, 2022 at 4:34 am

    Tomas, thank you for sharing this English teaching method. What a truly enjoyable, “ life goal “ and, “real life experience” focused method to speak English.

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    • Tom says

      February 28, 2022 at 9:14 am

      Thank you, Mark. Yes, the best way to practice language is to use our ‘real life situations’.

      Reply
  4. Jim says

    February 28, 2022 at 9:02 am

    I enjoyed reading that, and the student photos are great. Smith’s School of English Katsura looks like a fun and relaxing classroom to practice English conversation!

    Reply
    • Tom says

      February 28, 2022 at 9:13 am

      Thank you for reading, Jim. I try to make the classroom and our conversations as relaxing as possible.

      Reply
  5. Derek Maeckelburg says

    March 1, 2022 at 6:37 pm

    I like your teaching style Tom. Your students use real-life experiences as topics for conversation and the student talking time is high. Well done!

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  6. Michael says

    March 1, 2022 at 11:54 pm

    Great article Tom. You have given me great ideas for the next few lessons of getting students chatting together about the past few trips.

    Reply
  7. Martin Werner Zander says

    March 2, 2022 at 9:21 am

    That big World Map will definitely encourage everyone to think about their next trip abroad, especially with travel restrictions starting to ease.

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  8. Mark Smith says

    March 2, 2022 at 9:46 am

    Great point Martin, Tomas’ world map and classroom open discussion must lead to students thinking about traveling. Great idea.

    Reply
  9. Tom says

    March 3, 2022 at 11:43 am

    Yes, we are all looking forward to traveling abroad again. Big map on the classroom wall with students’ travel photos is a big inspiration.

    Reply
  10. Tom says

    March 3, 2022 at 11:45 am

    Thank you, that’s the idea and it often does lead to travel discussions.

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  11. Tom says

    March 13, 2022 at 11:11 am

    Thank you, Derek. Student talking time is the key. Interesting rel-life topics help to achieve that.

    Reply
  12. Tom says

    March 13, 2022 at 11:13 am

    Thank you Michael. That’s great, go for it!

    Reply

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