I’d just like to take a moment to say how well I think my Wednesday afternoon Express Yourself private student is doing. She has been with us a little over a year now and has a near perfect attendance record, having only needed to take a handful of absences here and there. In that time, she has consistently submitted compositions for each of the lessons, demonstrating both a good understanding of how to structure a written response to a question and also a good use of natural phrasing and idiomatic speech. During the in-class conversation, she always tries to paraphrase what she has said in her composition, never simply just reading whatever it is she wrote in a given week. She has also taken it upon herself to study for the Eiken test and will be sitting the exam some time in the near future! So, N-san, keep up the great work – you are a model student and I wish you all the best in your studies. Good luck on the test!

今回は私の水曜日の午後のエクスプレスユアセルフのプライベートの生徒さんがどんなに頑張ってくれているかについてコメントをしたいと思います。 彼女はEnglish-Please!で学習を始めて1年ちょっとになりますが、ほぼ完璧な出席記録を保持しています。 数回だけお休みされた際も、彼女は毎回の宿題を欠かさず提出しています。 宿題の質問に対する回答の構成の仕方をよく理解しており、自然な言い回しや慣用句を上手に使いこなしています。 授業中の会話でも、宿題の作文の中で自分が言ったことを言い換えて伝えようとしており、その週に書いたものをただ読むだけではありません。 また、英検の勉強にも力を入れていて、近いうちに英検を受ける予定です。Nさん、これからも頑張ってください!受験がんばってください!