Here we are at Okeiko House in the middle of a Tuesday morning “Eikaiwa Cafe” class. (Eikaiwa = 英会話 = English Conversation.) We are playing a game of karuta using a deck of English vocabulary cards from the excellent “Let’s Go” children’s English study series. The class began with rotating-pair conversations around the [Read more…]
A couple of weeks ago, on of my students talked about a photographic exhibition that was being held at the Fukuya department store in Hachobori, in the centre of Hiroshima. The exhibition was celebrating the 100th birthday of Japan’s first female news photographer, Tsuneko Sasamoto. Intrigued by my student’s report [Read more…]
At the Koi Community Centre class on Saturday morning we talked about some quotations from Somerset Maugham‘s novel, Of Human Bondage. Here is the first quotation we looked at: Philip is choosing between the kind, considerate and likable Norah, who is offering him the happiness of a stable relationship, and [Read more…]
When I was on holiday in England with my daughter a few years ago, we found the Peter Rabbit Radish Board Game in a National Trust shop and had a lot of fun playing it. I introduced the game to my pre-schoolers class at Okeiko House last month and it [Read more…]
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