Movie Afternoon

«Movie Afternoon» and WOA’s free resources presentation
The Window on America Center Dnipropetrovsk was visited by the 8th grade students from the local high school number 22, it provides in-depth study of English and is one of the best in town the school is a longtime partner of the WOA Center and the DOUNB library.
The Center’s free resources for learning English were presented to the group. The activities most popular among library patrons were presented to the group - the theme book displays, weekly Movie club and weekly English-speaking clubs for different age groups (for teens and adults).
Then students watched the family movie “Mr. Popper's Penguins” (2011). 

It’s a funny story about the life of a businessman, which begins to change after he inherits six penguins, and as he transforms his apartment into a winter wonderland, his professional side starts to unravel.
After the movie WOA’s Head Svitlana Usenko offered to play “Apples to Apples”- the game of hilarious comparisons. It's as easy as comparing apples to apple: just open the box, deal the cards and you're ready to play. Select the card from your hand that you think is best described by a card played by the judge. Each game round is filled with surprising and outrageous comparisons from a wide range of people, places, things and events.
 

The students have inspected the book and image display «VE-Day – the 70th Anniversary», a paper display «Music Scene and Heard», and a «New arrivals» display. The focus of the paper display was on the panels that deal with American jazz and other genres of music that Ukrainian audience associates with the American music. Pop/Rock, Musical theater and religious music complemented the information about Jazz. The panels represent collages with the images of the American stars in the above-mentioned genres and provide comments to the images.
The highlight the new arrivals display is pop-up book «Ice Age».
Number of participants – 25.

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