The session of the revived Grasshoppers Club took place at WOA Dnipro this afternoon.
It was prepared and moderated by WOA’s volunteer Anna Motorina, a fluent speaker of English and a high school student (Dnipro’s School #9), ready to share her knowledge.
The session consisted of several types of language activities, new vocabulary introduction, cognitive videos watching, games and active discussion.
The topic of today session was “Grammar: Past Simple Tense”.
The most anticipated activity was the word game “Apples to Apples”. The fan of the game Svitlana presented the rules to the rest of the group. And she was a Judge. The boys and girls introduced her to their hilarious game of crazy comparisons. School students enjoyed the “Apples to Apples” game.
Number of participants – 6 (children and parents).
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The Window on America Dnipro center (Ukraine) offer the library patrons an “Express English: Activate English 8.0.” activity that will help them to activate their passive knowledge of the foreign language and to overcome the fear of speaking in English.
The two hour- lecture is offered for the participants to improve their conversational skills in pairs. All the participants found the session educational and helpful.
Participants number – 38 persons.
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«Window on America» for junior students: “Grasshoppers Club” at WOA Dnipro.
Young schoolchildren, members of the English speaking club "Grass-hoppers" had a pleasant surprise - the National Metallurgical Academy student Sergiy Barabash told them about his trip to a scientific conference in Germany. Mr. Sergiy emphasized the importance of studying English, which is the language of international communication. Knowing English makes international travel easier.
The official club’s session was prepared by the WOA’s volunteer Hanna Motoryna. She checked the students’ homework and graded them. The session was dedicated to improving the auditing skills. New vocabulary was recorded in the notebooks.
The Club members particularly enjoyed the video tutorial from YouTube.
Number of participants – 6 (children and parents).
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This afternoon the Gabfest Club session (Window on America center Dnipro, Ukraine) attracted several new people and for a warm up they were asked to introduce themselves.
The official topic of the conversation was MLK Day which is a federal holiday in the USA and is observed on the third Monday of January. We started the topic with reading, translating several popular M.L.King’s quotes. In their comments of the quotes the Club members admired how in simple language M.L.King managed to speak about complex issues. The observance of the MLK day in the USA was illustrated with an educational EFL video that introduced important vocabulary. The real highlight of the session was a Moyo video that uncovered several unknown facts about the events in which M.L. King participated.
The session was educational and reminded the club members about the importance of the civil rights.
The session was very educational and was enjoyed by all the participants.
Participants number – 24 persons.
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Zoreslav Baydiuk at Window on America center in Dnipro, Ukraine.
The «Voice of America» Ukrainian service has a unique opportunity to convey to its audience in Ukraine the first hand information about the life in the United States. Mr. Zoreslav Baydiuk and other reporters travel to the most remote corners of the country and show real life America.
At the meeting Mr. Baydiuk featured the video sketches series «America. Off the Highway».
The guests watched the videos with curiosity and asked a lot of questions afterword.
The Dnipro audience’s feedback was very important for Mr. Baydiuk. The «Voice of America» wants to know the opinion of the Ukrainian public, what topics would be interesting for the Ukrainian viewers. The «Voice of America» journalists appreciate the viewers’ thoughts; they will take them into account during the creation of new “Voice of America” programs.
These programs contribute to the understanding between Ukraine and the United States, after watching them Ukrainians become more informed, more tolerant and friendly.
Participants number – 80 persons.
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This afternoon the Speed English participants (Window on America center in Dnipro, Ukraine) discussed the arrival of summer and talked about different aspects of this wonderful season.
Participants number – 30 persons.
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Speed English appeared to be especially cool this time. Sometimes when there are many people and native speakers we divide into few groups and this time we did it as well so we had a great pleasure to communicate with our American friends during this Speed English session as nothing beats practicing speaking English with native speakers, and that’s why we can say that nothing beats Speed English session with American native speakers, in other words this Speed English was upbeat.
Taking into account that we do not have a possibility to speak English with foreigners every day (which would be ideal for us in order to speak English fluently), we especially enjoyed this opportunity to communicate with them in a very intense and interactive way which is proposed in Speed English. For each conversation with one partner we had three minutes, and questions were usual as they were not about the topic which was during the informational part of the session. But some of them were extraordinary for us, especially question about the craziest thing in life, so we as speaking club members can say it made us think in an unusual way to answer such question, which was really upbeat. No wonder that communicating in groups with American native speakers at Speed English was so efficient for us and inspiring that we enjoyed communicating with our American friends after this session, feeling hungry for another Speed English.
