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Today, I would like to recommend to you a superb English textbook, “English through pictures.” As its title suggests, this book helps you learn English by means of pictures alone, without a single word of Japanese.
When you take a look at this book, however, you may feel that the amount of visuals is not enough, but I believe that this is about the right amount. Rather, to my mind, today’s learners are too used to enormous amount of visual aids, but you don’t learn from visuals, they are something incidental, nothing essential.
This book, reminding me how my own junior high teacher of English taught me, made me reflect on what would be the best way to teach English like. My teacher at that time taught us English, drawing similar simple cartoons on the blackboard, and rarely translating into Japanese. And the atmosphere of the classroom was very good, with the relationship between the teacher and us students always being friendly.
This book is suitable for learners of all levels. I highly recommend this book to you.
P.S.
Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher, tells you about the most important thing when learning in general. According to the Proust and the Squid, he seems to imply that in learning, the essential thing is serious discussion by two people, encountering as human beings, and not the visual aids or even written words you read in a book. What would he say, if he saw learning materials you use today, filled to the brim with visual aids, colorful and often electric, the good rapport between the teacher and the learner slighted, perhaps.
私立学校に英語教師として勤務中、40代半ばに差し掛かったころ、荒れたクラスを立て直す策として、生徒に公言して英検1級に挑戦することを思い立つ。同様の挑戦を繰り返し、退職までに英検一級（検定連合会長賞）、TOEIC満点、国連英検SA級、フランス語一級、スペイン語一級（文科大臣賞）、ドイツ語一級、放送大学大学院修士号などの成果を得る。
アメリカで生徒への対応法を学ぶ為に研修（地銀の助成金）。最新の心理学に触れた。4都県での全発表、勤務校での教員への研修を英語で行う。現在も特別選抜クラスの授業を全て英語で行っている。「どうやって単語を覚えればいいですか？」という良くある質問に答える為、印欧祖語からの派生に基づく「生徒には見せたくない語源英単語集」を執筆中。完成間近。常日頃洋書の読破で様々な思考にふれているが、そうして得た発想の一つを生かして書いた論文がコロナ対策論文として最近入賞。賞品の牛肉に舌鼓をうっている。元英検面接委員