English– category –

I got accepted as a Google Certified Trainer this month. It is a certification of showing skills to teach how to apply Google for Education at schools. It was not my first attempt to apply. I tried about five times as I remember but had ...

I was talking with a colleague of mine about English lessons, and the topic came up of what is the appropriate verb for "to see cherry blossoms". I had gone to see cherry blossoms with foreign students myself, and I remember using the En...

In the English club at school, I played "Look this way!" with students. This is あっちむいてほい in Japanese and all Japanese people know the game. The ALT of my school did not know this game and it may be popular only in Japan. Rule: Ho...

「くしゃくしゃぎゅ」という題材で、クラフト紙を使って立体をつくりました。English Below Takonosuke 子どもがイメージを膨らませる 子どもがイメージを膨らませるために、はじめにデザインや設定を考えていきます。自分でも一緒に作業をしながら考えま...

Not Reaching the Aim of Government This is an article from Sora News 24, and I think the source of the survey is the same I mentioned yesterday.  It pointed out under 35% of JTEs meet government proficiency benchmark, which is B1 level i...

Reading Practice I have read the article on the Japan times today.  I feel my English reading skill has been improving since I started studying for TOEIC test.  It took about fifteen minutes to read this article and I do not fe...

These days I spend more time reading English articles about education in Japan.  I coincidentally found a very interesting article viewing English education really skeptically.  Since it is quite radical, I would like to quote ...

Concerns I woke up at 5am as usual.  Though I usually study what I want every morning but today I left home at 6am to prepare for lessons.  I went there much earlier than usual to make some teaching material to prepare for new ...