07 December, 2013

Christmas is coming!

Meets at the informational-resourses center "Window on America" of an "American Teen Club" continues! 
The volunteers are two Alumni of the FLEX(Future Leader's Exchange), Dasha Gerasimova and Anna Akastyelova. The recent one's meet theme was: Winter already came-getting ready for Christmas!
 Moderators introduces some English idioms and phrases related to this thematic such as:
black ice - небезпека у справах
whiteout - стати невидимим
pure as the driven snow - невинний
put something on ice – перечекати
snowedunder– засипало, навалилося
Club member have played a visuality-developing game and performed with a small skits. The first one was a decorating of a Christmas tree, and the second one was a harder one to guess- skit about a "Сhristmas Eve".

There also was a new game intoduced, known as a one of the favourites in America, "Scrabble": create your words, count your letters,cross your findings.

After this game attention of the members was all on the quiz-board game "Christmas tasks", where in order to move on the game's board you have to show your knowledge and use a lexical baggage. The winner was Sveta and she was awarded with a candy-case of an American president.
At the end of the games, team members followed the vital winter activity- drinking hot tea when it is cold outside.



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