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Hello everybody!  Today, we will start a series of posts which focus on adjectives.  We would like all students to expand their vocabulary and try to use new, more specific words in conversation.  These new adjectives coul...

Hello everybody!  It has been a while since our last blog post, but we hope you are enjoying spring and preparing for the hot summer ahead.  Today, our topic is the influential music composer, Terry Riley.  Most of you probaly don't...

Hey everybody!  We hope that you are enjoying spring so far, and of course, please go outside and see the cherry blossoms before it's too late.  Today, I'd like to introduce a great young athlete in America who is getting ...

Hello, everybody! We are so happy to start another acadmeic year with you at BRIDGE.  It is also cherry blossom season!  Please tell me where you like to go to see the beautiful sakura in Nagoya.  As for me, I love Na...

Hello everybody!  It has been a long time since we last posted on the BRIDGE Teacher’s Blog.  We all hope that 2024 is going well for you.  Are you ready for spring and the beautiful cherry blossoms?   I will definite...

Queen Elizabeth’s funeral was held and the BBC has been reporting on her for hours every day. Above all, what is engraved in people’s minds is the consciousness of being British. Through long term public service, the Queen was instrument...

At a certain dementia care facility in Germany, the staff were worried about how to deal with wondering elderly people. One day, a staff member noticed that there were many wondering old people who wanted to use buses to go home. Then, t...

Something interesting came up in a recent discussion class about ghosts and other supernatural phenomena. I`ve always been aware that the Japanese and European attitudes to ghosts and so on are quite different – for example, the Japanese...

Many students at our school ask us about the history of Halloween, and because the spooky holiday is coming soon, we thought we would answer that question! Halloween actually has a very long history and comes from the Celts, a group of p...

いつもの「地球歩き」（=冒険旅）とは異なるけれど、年末年始に出かけた韓国旅について綴っています。 2時間で行けてしまう韓国は、コロナ前の2020年1月までは年に2-3度出かけていました。 そのほとんどが妹と一緒で、このときばかりは「大人女子旅」（←言...