February 15, 2024
Well, it’s been quite a year. Revamped the FS Beginner English Conversation textbook, (finallly) printed our Japanese for Carpenter Interns textbook, as well as many other things along the way. Good things. Things that make you just want to stand up and say thank God I was born on this earth, with these specific skills that allow me to do the job that I do. Not just a job, but a real chance to help real people with a real need. Oh, sure, there are always a few clients who might make me want to pull my hair out, and balancing all these saucers just so, in order to prevent the whole house from collapsing can be tricky, but I am up to the job!
Well, that’s what it makes me think…
February 9, 2021
Nobody reads this, so I kinda stopped writing. But maybe I can start again? Who knows?! Anything is possible. Except getting the fingers used to using 2 keyboards everyday. The MacBook keyboard and a generic Windows keyboard are so different! It makes me crazy that I have to switch between them all day long.
FWP, I know. But it just gets to me…
August 19, 2019
Summer Vacation has come and gone- and the heat is on! Here are a couple of TED Talks about language to watch while you're hiding away from the sun:
Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal
Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity
Lera Boroditsky: How Language shapes the way we think
Deb Roy: The birth of a word
June 28, 2019
Typhoon season has officially started! The rainy seasons is still in effect, so we have to be that much more careful out on the roads. For those of you teaching at Roland, you may have a textbook assigned to your class. Be sure and check who has the book, and if they’ve used it before, how far along they’ve gone before planning your course. If you need to purchase a new textbook, inform the office and we’ll order it for them- don’t have them order it themselves (Roland policy).
English Dictation
In case any of you don't know, we have dictation homework available for elementary to upper intermediate level English classes to use as homework. here are the first batches of dictations for the Elementary (A1) and High Elementary (A2) level learners, along with the scripts to the dictations:
A1 Dictation Audio page 1(for students): www.fourseasons.co.jp/dictation-a1-1-6
A1 Dictation Answers page 1(scripts): www.fourseasons.co.jp/dictationscript-a1-1-6
A2 Dictation Audio page 1(for students): www.fourseasons.co.jp/dictation-a2-1-6
A2 Dictation Answers page 1(scripts): www.fourseasons.co.jp/dictationscript-a2-1-6
“In a perfect world you should walk into every lesson with a goal, or a set of goals. In any event, you and your students should walk out of every lesson with a set of achievements.”
-Joe