LETTER FROM HAPPY ENGLISH SCHOOL　January 29th,2018

LETTER FROM HAPPY ENGLISH SCHOOL

Happy New Year! It is already the end of January. Oh, my goodness.

The New Year holiday mood is already gone. Everybody has got down to business.

Most parents and students have come to get interviews with me to talk about the students’ academic performances and how they can improve their English effectively in conversation, in school or at work. Some twenty students took STEP tests (Eiken), which we strongly encourage students to take in order to get them motivated to study for their specific goals. Junior Step test are scheduled to be held at the end of this month and the beginning of the next month.

Entrance exams for high school and college are also taking place and junior high 3rd graders and high school 3rd graders are working hard to be successful in them. Although the government seems to promote communicative English at school, unfortunately, entrance exams still focus on reading and grammar. Students these days do not seem to have solid grammar knowledge because the textbooks they use scatter more conversational expressions here and there, which forces students to resort to more rote memorization. As a result, students tend to easily forget them because, in fact, they do not really understand them.

I hope many students continue to study at Happy English School. We offer the most effective lessons imaginable for students to master English.

１月も終わろうとしています。正月気分は、とっくにどこかに行ってしまいました。個人面談があり、英検があり、いまは、Jr英検を行っています。中３・高３は受験でまた猛勉強してほしいものです。努力は人を裏切らないといいます。継続のお知らせを配布していますが、英語の学習は時間を要するもの。

続けて英語をモノにするまで頑張ってHappy English Schoolで学習してください。