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In my Jr High and High school classes, I try to encourage my students to ask their questions and have conversations with me and with eachother.

To help them with this, I bring "The Cube" to each lesson, it is a simple dice with "Who, What, When, Where, How, Free" on the different sides, helping them think of what to ask next. When I started with one of my groups, they were very unsure, speaking quietly and taking a long time to come up with something to ask. However, now that they are more comfortable they are asking more and more interesting questions, whe have gone from "when is your Birthday" all the way up to "where in the world would you like to live in the future" and it has been great to hear everyone sharing their thoughts and help eachother figure out how to ask things.

Lessons are a great way to learn grammar and vocabulary, but the truly best way to learn how to speak to others is simply to do it, you`ll learn the flow and the tone far easier when you get to see and hear it all around you, so get out there and try talking to someone!

-Jordan Sensei

So Halloween is comming up and some of my students seem less than excited about the day.
Some of them feel like it's not going to be fun because they will be at school and while others are happy to spend it
with friends. I got to see one of our little P2s spread some Hallowwen cheer to other students yesterday after class.
It was really sweet and thoughtful!

She bought Halloween lucky packets and handed them out, and said Happy Halloween! That spirit is why I want to encourage everyone,
to try something new this halloween. Dress up, or play a small prank with your friends.
Hand out candy or even just pull a scary face.
Spreading a little bit of the spooky vibes may be just the thing to brighten up someon's day!

- Khanya (Kay) Sensei

冬のインタラクティブセミナー絶賛受付中です！！
会話とはまた違うアプローチで英語学習に挑戦しましょう！◆フォニクッスの練習
◆読みの練習（絵本を使った教材で多読します。）
◆リスニング力・語彙力の養成
◆英検・入試のリスニング対策これからの時代、パソコン力は必須です！
小さいうちからコツコツと取り組み力を付けていきましょう！

It may sound strange but my first ever Halloween was 24 years ago in Hokkaido.

This is because Halloween was primarily a North American and Canadian festival and, at least when I was a child in the UK, it wasn’t celebrated.

The UK has its own very different festival called Guy Fawkes Night.

While Halloween is a festival celebrating the supernatural (similar to the Mexican Dio Del Muerte – Day of the Dead), Guy Fawkes Night is a commemoration of an actual historical event.

However, there are some similarities.

For example, both festivals are known for particular phrases; “Trick or treat? (Halloween) and “Penny for the Guy” (Guy Fawkes Night), both festivals involve sweets (Apples coated in toffee are popular in the UK) and both festivals involve light in the darkness – candles in pumpkins (Halloween) and bonfires at night and fireworks (Guy Fawkes Night).

A distinction though is that Guy Fawkes Night has it’s own special chant;

Remember, Remember,
The 5th of November,
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot.

Best wishes, Michael.