The guests from Australia

Today the Speaking Club at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk had guests from Australia who will most likely become our good friends in the future.

Mr. Eric Kneller and his Ukrainian wife Irina   plan to deliver to the club members several lectures about their home country.

In the first lecture Mr. Eric reminded the basic information about Australia – its location, population, number of states, etc. The colorful pictures of the nature and animals illustrated the narration and triggered numerous questions from the participants.

Besides, Mr. Kneller demonstrated typical Australian souvenirs – a kangaroo toy, a boomerang and a cricket set (a bat and a ball). After the America Days the club members know more about the American baseball. Today they learned about the common and different things between cricket and baseball.

The guest also demonstrated the national coins of Australia and explained some unknown facts about the animals from the Australia’s coat of arms. The Kangaroo and the Emu were chosen for the coat of arms because these animals cannot move backwards.

The guests told us basic information about their home town – New Castle (NSW) which is one of the biggest cities in Australia. The Club members had an opportunity to listen to the Australian variant of the English language and train their auditing skills.

The session was a very educational event and we look forward to meet Eric and Irina next weekend.

The number of visitors – 16 persons.

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