Bumped into...

'Bumped into' is a very useful verb to know...

Last week I was out for a walk around Kure with my wife and I bumped into 3 of my students with their mum.
They are only 4 years old and they are triplets!!

I really enjoy teaching them and, because they have been coming to me for around 2 years now, their English is very natural and their pronunciation is excellent...

thank you Mr K, Mr F and Miss K and see you soon :)

get into / be into

One of my students said in class 'I got into Jazz music now'

What she wanted to say was 'I am into Jazz music now / at the moment'

To 'get into' expresses a change over time from not liking something to liking it...

'Last year I got into cooking' means before last year you didn't like cooking, but now you do, so...

'Now I am (really) into cooking'


We use 'be into' with 'now' or 'at the moment'

'I am (really) into going to the gym at the moment'

We use 'get into' a lot with 'last...' or 'recently'

'I got into painting very recently'

Hope this helps :)

STOP MAN !

My friend who works in a children's ward at a hospital in Hiroshima asked me to make a poster to keep visiting children out of the ward. It had to be eye-catching enough to stop them entering, so I came up with STOP MAN.

She just sent me pictures of the final posters in place...

I was really glad to be able to help :)

Back from The OSCATOWN LONDON TOUR 2012

We just came back from our 2 week tour to London. This year we took 10 students with us and we had a great time. We did a lot more than last year and definitely saw more of London, ate more food and drank more beer...
Everyone had a great time and you can see a lot more pictures if you follow the link below

http://oscatownlondontour.blogspot.jp/

See you !

Drawing

I am looking forward to going to London so much that I decided to draw a picture of one of the places that holds most memories for me in London, Berwick Street in Soho...I will be walking this street very soon : )

CUE in the Chugoku Newspaper

Good morning!!
Today the new issue of Cue was published...

 

On page 2 there is an article about London...

...by ME!!!

Summer holidays

So it is summer holidays time again and so it is time to visit Hiroshima's art galleries for kid's events.
Every year, through-out the summer holidays, Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum (my favourite place in the city) and Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum hold special art events for kids, which are usually free to enter.
So this week I took my 7 year old daughter to the Prefectural Art Museum to do some drawing on the floor!!

 

It was busy when we arrived but my daughter soon picked up some crayons and started, a little tentatively at first, to draw on the walls and floor. By the time we left she was jumping up and down with crayons in her hands trying to draw as high as she could on the wall, and climbing on me to get to the top.

 

We had a great time and I would recommend it to anyone looking for something to do with the kids.

 

Then afterwards we left the back entrance and went to see Shukkeien. It was the first time I had been there but it is so relaxing and tranquil that I will definitely be going back again soon.