Today the American Corner had guests from Novomoskovsk , a town 40 km away from Dnipropetrovsk. Our guests were Joanne Luongo - a community Peace Corp volunteer - and her assistant Julia Kolesnikova. Joanne plans to start the English Speaking Club in Novomoskovsk in September 2011. Svitlana Usenko, Tamara Gavryliuk and Joanne exchanged some ideas about possible ways of collaboration: student visits, field trips, Power Point presentations, books sharing etc.
The English Speaking Club session started with the introduction of the guests from Novomoskovsk and Joanne’s brief presentation on her home state.
Today’s topic was "Celebration of B. Obama’s 50th anniversary Hawaiian style”.
To start with it was decided to have an on-line quiz about Barak Obama. To compensate for the incorrect quiz answers we have read and translated a brief outline of his biography. This was followed by a Youtube videos about the President’s birthdays party in Chicago. The club members commented on what was seen.
The birthplace of the US President inspired us to talk about Hawaii.
After the videos on the tourist attractions of Hawaii we have answered the Hawaii trivia fun quiz. The score was not very high, but the correct answers educated us a lot about the history of this state.
In the 60th of the last century the American pop idol E. Presley contributed to the global popularity of Hawaii by filming three movies there. We watched some colorful scenes from.
“Paradise, Hawaiian Style”, a 1966 music comedy film starring Elvis Presley.
To support the musical theme the club member Vlad Shelest performed a couple of romantic songs with guitar accompaniment .
The guests, Joanne and Patrick, answered numerous questions asked by the Club members.
The number of participants – 24 persons.
Have a look at more pictures, please
The meeting “Celebration of B. Obama’s 50th anniversary Hawaiian style” was fun with a lot to be missed for those absent!
Useful links, we chose it:
http://barackobamabiography.org/ biography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er_dlFyms-Q Obama’s celebration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThRGt3e9N3U&feature=related happy birthday to you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laDBokx-K0I&feature=fvwrel Hawaii travel intro Lonely Planet
http://video.about.com/gohawaii/Tour-Honolulu-and-Waikiki.htm Honolulu + Waikiki
http://www.funtrivia.com/newflash/trivia.cfm?qid=75685 quiz Fun facts+++
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueGvqbkQUF8&feature=related content of Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuhYF-QksB4&feature=related song Hawaii Elvis + lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVq37rPu4jU rocj ahula baby by Elvis fm Blue Hawaii
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCPx4S4vS2E hula competition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Yx-5l8d-g hula Little Brown gal hula dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONnMQKohwo0 Hawaiian style BBQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTdfwoxgMTU&feature=related macaroni Hawaiian style
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