Today the American Teen Club session (at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) welcomed the members of ATC with tea, because the weather outside was rather cold.
During the tea session, several foreign guests, Mr. Jason and Mr. Paul, joined in with interesting topics for conversation.
The Clubs moderator Anna Akastiolova (a FLEX Alumnus), who is a long time WOA’s friend and volunteer. She prepared several educational activities for the group.
The club members exchanged information on their school week and the week-end events. The group played vocabulary games (Activate Games) at the table and simple motion games outside the table for a change.
They also watched the cartoons and made translation of the popular tunes from the favorite Disney cartoons. The original subtitles helped the group a lot and introduced many new words and expressions.
Number of participants – 7 persons.
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American Teen Club session took place at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) today. The session was attended by our American volunteer Mr. Jason.
The American Teen Club’s moderator Ania Akastiolova (FLEX Alumni) offered some interesting positive videos (with Bob Marley) and vocabulary games as well to memorize popular English idioms.
The group of teenagers tried themselves as actors; they made short stories (Fables).
The highlight of the session was introduction of the board games set “Activate”. The group was offered a trial set of educational games for American English learners. The participants selected and played the game “Name your favorite …”.
The session was a funny and educational event that introduced new trends in language learning.
Number of participants – 13 persons.
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This Saturday the Gabfest Club (Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) members took part in the global event – the International Games Day.
The first part of the session was dedicated to the introduction of the event and the conversation about board games and their role in the lives of modern people. The phenomenon of “game-based learning” was introduced to the group and illustrated with several You Tube videos. The club members shared their experiences of having gamification elements in training and their attitude to the games that actually teach you something. New vocabulary to the topic was also introduced.
The second part of the Games Day session was the introduction of the WOA’s board games collection. Our American volunteer Mr. Jason took an active part in the games introduction. We started with the elementary school games that may be useful to American English learners as they teach spelling (“Boggle”) and progressed to the most challenging ones (the crossword game “Scrabble” and its varieties). The popular games that are just fun were also introduced (“The Jungle Speed” and “Monopoly”). The most helpful games for the Gabfest Club members are: “Apples to Apples” that enriches vocabulary and “Taboo” that improves descriptive and speaking skills.
The highlight of the session was introduction of the board games set “Activate”. The group was offered a trial set of educational games for American English learners. The participant formed pairs and actively had conversations according to the games’ titles.
The session was a funny and educational event that introduced new trends in language learning.
The Gabfest Club members made a video about their Games Day at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine for the global International Games Day site.
Number of participants – 27 persons.
Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, actively uses resources freely available on the American English web site recommended for English teachers and learners by the US State Department.
This year we were invited to participate in the “Activate Ukraine” event for the International Games Day observed on November, 21. WOA Dnipropetrovsk decided to present the event and the resources to the local long-time partner – high school No. 22 (with focus on English study). The school helped us to arrange game sessions for 5 groups of senior students.
Activate is a set of games that offer practice with vocabulary, grammatical patterns, and interaction skills in a learner-centered, low-stress environment. When playing the games students are motivated to talk informally and to think creatively.
As the students of school No. 22 are advanced students “Activate” games were offered for them as a warm up round for speaking skills practice. The activity was enjoyed by all students.
In the second round of games the WOA staff introduced board games from the WOA Dnipropetrovsk collection – Apples to Apples, Taboo, The scrambles States of America. The games popular among the native-speaking Americans were a challenge for the students as they required a big vocabulary, ability to describe the notions, objects, verbs as well as good knowledge of US geography. As a bonus for the fastest winning teams we offered a round of “Jungle Speed” game which urged the gamers to think and react fast.
The most enjoyed game for senior student was Apple to Apple – the game of crazy combinations.
At the end of the day the gaming session was offered to the middle students. They used WOA’s iPads to play word game “Futaba’.
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