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Eiken Tests
The Summer Session EIKEN tests will be held from June 2nd. While we don't explicitly teach EIKEN in our regular Elementary and Junior High School classes I do sometimes use past tests as part of our classes. The children are normally surprised at how many questions they can answer, despite having never studied for the test (Although it doesn't surprise me at all, after all learning is not just about studying to pass a particular test!)
If I've heard they passed the first test then we will spend a bit of time practising the interviews to remove some of the fears they have about speaking English in front of a stranger.
And remember if your child is taking an EIKEN test please tell me and I can maybe offer some practice in class.
More info about EIKEN in English.
Clearwater Beach
A big thank you to one of our English Cafe Class students who brought back this gift from her recent visit to Clearwater Beach in Florida.
We also enjoyed munching through the Dove PROMISES chocolates she brought back and reading the messages inside each individually wrapped chocolate.
Toyama Kindergarten
Today we were asked if we could display this poster for Toyama Kindergarten, and as we have every year we said, 'yes'. Especially as many of our own students at englishpool attend, will attend or have attended.
The poster looks great, and is a departure from their usual hand made and cut posters.
And to be fair to other child-care facilities/kindergartens in the Wakamatsu-cho, Kawada-cho, Okubo and Toyama areas here's a list:
Chacha Higashi-toyama Kodomo-en
Comming Soon... (???)
Advertising poster for the new udon shop that will open soon in the same building as englishpool.
Can you spot the mistake?
Maybe there's an opportunity to offer English classes for the staff!
English Joke
The word 'chores' came up in our English Cafe class yesterday, and none of the class members knew the meaning.
After teaching them that it referred to household jobs such as washing dishes, doing laundry etc I took the opportunity to teach them a joke:
Dad: Have you finished your chores?
Son: What chores?
Dad: Thank you very much I'll have another pint!
Do you get? Maybe I can put it to good use at the forthcoming Craft Beer festival in Takadanobaba
Oh, by the way. Mines a glass (or two) of beer!
That's Chopin
These pamphets found their way to us last week from Chiiku Lab and look a little interesting.
A classical concert will be held at the Roppomgi K concert Salon on June 2nd, featuringYoshihiro Kondo on piano, Hajime Otomo on cello, Yuko Higuchi dancing and of NHK children's English fame, Eric Jacobsen.
Apparently when Eric isn't busy performing at English events (see his Hi Eric site) he also has a grown up band The Eric Jacobsen Band.
More details of the classical concert can be found on the Confetti website: English Here, Japanese here.
生徒募集中
新しい年度の始まり。
イングリッシュプールでは、子どもたちが、もっともっと英語に興味をもってくれるよう
仕掛けをしています！
テキストも、よりカラフルで、より美しい写真を使ったものに変更しました。
小学生クラスでは、英語で世界中の人とコンタクトできることを、
リアルに体験してもらえるよう、
某サイトを使って、”ペンフレンド”と交流してもらっています。
書くこと、読むこと、話すこと、、面白くなければ続かないもの。
新しいことに触れることに、ワクワクしてほしい。
少しずつでも英語に触れて、少しずつ吸収できていることを
しっかり体感してほしい。
好奇心いっぱいの子どもたちのキラキラを大切に、レッスンしています。
生徒募集中。
無料体験できます。
お気軽にご連絡ください。
No Phones or Smartphones in the Class
Made this sign to remind our younger elementary students not to use their mamorino or kidsphone during class time! Not only does it disturb the lesson but they are more than likely calling mum; who then wonders why her child is calling her during their English lesson. Double trouble!!
Shopping Mall
This was part of a project bringing time expressions, actions and shop vocabulary together as part of the MacMillan English coursebook.
I was impressed with how the children who took part in this project used the language they had studied over several months to come up with their own ideas. We'll definitely be doing more of this kind of work during 2018.
Unfortunately I forgot to give this particular work back before the boy and his family relocated to the north of Japan. Sorry!
Papabubble
Recevied these brightly coloured candies as a thank you present from two of my students, K & R.
I was intrigued to find out more about them as I hadn't seen anything like them before, turns out they are from a Spanish company called papabubble.
Will have to take a trip to one of their Tokyo shops soon!
More...
New Textbooks
Delighted to receive the new textbooks for this year from our preferred supplier englishbooks.jp.
This batch contained the Macmillan English and the Cengage Explore Our World textbooks to be used in our elementary classes.
Thanks to the staff at englishbooks.jp for the swift delivery.
Student Gallery
I have added a new page added to the englishpool website, it is intended to be a gallery of students written/presentation work.
The first images are from work completed just before the Spring break by our Elementary A students, featuring their favourite animals.
I was so proud of what they achieved that I wanted to share it. Great work children!
You can take a look by clicking here.
What's Tomica in English?
I was asked a few weeks ago by a mother and son, who are relocating to the UK soon, "What's Tomica in English?"
As someone who grew up in the 1970s my first thought was Matchbox cars..we call them Matchbox cars...but hang on didn't they change to Corgi during my childhood...and then again are Corgi cars still in production?
Seems the best answer I could finally come up with was "Toy cars, we call them toy cars."
For those who don't know Tomica here's a link to their English site, www.takaratomy.co.jp/english/products/tomica/index.html
Spring Holiday
Just a quick reminder (maybe too late for some) this week englishpool is closed for a short spring holiday.
See you all next week.
