Favorite Fall Foods

Hello Everyone!

I like many kinds of food in the Fall season. For example, I like sweet potatoes cooked with butter on top. I also really like pumpkin soup and pumpkin pie. Pumpkin is a very popular fall food in America. Other popular foods in the fall in America are turkey, cranberry sauce, and baked potatoes for instance.

In America, there is a very famous holiday called Thanksgiving. It is in the fall, on the last Thursday in November. On Thanksgiving, we usually eat many delicious and healthy foods. For example, we eat turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, carrots, and pumkin pie for desert.

I like food very much! I especially like the food around fall. For example, I eat things like sweet potato snacks, pumpkin soup, dumpling soup, grilled fish, oysters, and other vegetables! Let's have good fall eating!

New Fall Classwork

I am teaching many classes this Fall! On Monday I have English Conversation class at Kendai. Then I come to Gakuendai, where I teach Writing, English II, English IV, and Basic English Conversation.

We are doing many things in each of the classes. I always like to give on-going assignments and classwork. I sometimes give homework, but most of the work in my classes is done in class. I find this is an effective way to have students learn, and to concentrate while in the class. Of course, when there is homework to be done, I expect it to be done on-time, and well!

Some examples of some of the work I give in class includes opinion sharing, conversational practice, short writing assignments, pronunciation, and international topic discussion. I am happy to have the opportunity to teach so many great classes and have so many great and lively students!

Summer Trip to Cambodia

This summer several teachers, graduate students, an undergraduate student, and some friends went to Vietnam and Cambodia. It was a great trip, filled with lots of sightseeing, in addition to eating, drinking, and meeting locals.

We especially had a wonderful time at Angkor University, where three teachers gave lectures on economic, finance, and English development in Cambodia. The lectures were all in English.  It was a fantastic time, and all the students were lively and energetic. They could follow our lectures, and understood our English very well!

In the first part of my lecture, I taught a simple English lesson on self-introductions. The students were able to introduce themselves to the class without a problem. One 
student even sang a song for the class, and all the class members joined in!

In the next part of my lecture, I spoke about elevating English ability through business development in Cambodia. I want to find how businesses such as trade and tourism can effect English learning in a developing country. All the students could understand my English!

May 21st

Today is a beautiful, but hot day! We are doing many things in Writing class, such as making blogs and blog posts.

We will start our book review from today. The book reviews will be due next Monday, May 28th.

A book review is a review of a book you have read recently, or are reading now. In your book review, you should: tell us what the book is about; tell us about the characters; tell us about your feeling of the book. You should also tell us if you think the book is good or bad and why.

Spring Days

Hi all! Here is my newest post for my students! Just wanted to let you know that we will have fun writing blogs in this class! It is the beginning of new things to come.

Jeff's Place Introduction

Jeff's Place is a blog created for my University students. It's a place where you should visit often!

The First Jeff's Place Post

Welcome to Jeff's Place! What is Jeff's Place? Find out in the next post!