Love of Reading

Today’s session of the Gabfest Club in Window on America Dnipropetrovsk was dedicated to the St. Valentine’s Day. But we decided to focus on the topic of “Love of Reading”. We have read and translated 20+ reasons to read; we translated several quotes about the importance of reading. The highlight of the official part was the video about the history of books. It allowed the group to enrich vocabulary and introduce the terms important for the topic. The DOUNB library collection allowed to illustrate the terms from the book video – kids’ book could be pop-up, plastic, with cardboard pages, with 3D effect, with puzzle elements, accordion style, etc. The video on comparative reading motivated the club members to read books in pairs according to different criteria – original/translation, one event described by different people and others. The club members shared the stories about the books they read in a challenging genre - biography. It turned out that almost everyone managed to read biographies not only for school projects, but for educational purposes.
 

The conversation was complemented with a book display “Be my Valentine!” from the DOUNB Library resources.
The second part of the session was an informal conversation with our American guest Mr. Brian. The group focused on the importance of pronunciation for the language students. We laughed at funny stories from Brian, the club members told him fun facts about different versions of the Russian language he studies.
The session was a chance for all to express their love to reading and library.
Number of participants – 27 persons.
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