EY Y01 L01 English-Please!

Student Questions.

  1. How long have you been a student at English-Please!?
  2. What course were you on last year? How was it? Why?
  3. How did you find English-Please!?
  4. Why did you decide to join this school?
  5. Why are you learning English?
  6. You are now an intermediate student. What advice would you give to an adults student who was just starting out with English classes?

Special Questions for Teachers only.

  1. How long have you been an employee at English-Please!?
  2. What, who & where were you teaching last year? How was it? Why?
  3. How did you find English-Please!?
  4. Why did you decide to join this school?
  5. Do you learn Japanese at all? If yes, how? How is it going? If no, why not?
  6. Being a highly proficient language teacher, what advice would you give to a someone who was just starting out as a English language teacher in Japan?

Question 1

I started teaching in English-Please! only in August 2019.

Question 2

I was teaching in a small eikaiwa in Wakayama before I taught in English-Please!. It was nice but it wasn't as organized as English-Please!. I taught a lot of young children, it was really difficult to say goodbye to them.

Question 3

I really enjoy working here and hope I can keep wroking at English-Please! for as long as possible!

Question 4

I had to move to Osaka because my husband changed jobs. I was really interested in English-Please! because of the superb training they offered to their teachers.

Question 5

Yes! I have always been interested in Japanese culture and have been watching anime since I was a child. I formally started studying Japanese when I went to college. I stopped after graduating college, but after working for 4 years, I started going to Japanese lessons once a week on the weekends. I think I learned enough Japanese to survive in Japan, but still not enough to have a long conversation with someone.

Question 6

My advice would be to learn Japanese hand-in-hand with learning teaching techniques from TKT or TESOL. The most important rule I've learned is the 80-20 rule, the student should be speaking 80% of the time, while the teacher speaks for only 20%.

Tough Vocabulary