Universal Scientific Library Project continues cooperation with school № 141. That day a group of students visited the information-resource center "Window on America" on the tour, but with gifts. It was a collection of wonderful hand-made Christmas and New Year cards for librarians! Students’ attitude pleasantly surprised and inspired the library employees. Initially, the children watched a promotional trailer about the modern services available at the WOA center, learned about the opportunity to use its free resources for learning English. Then the children examined the WOA’s free access collections. They were impressed with the collection of authentic books and movies on DVD. The films can be watched in a group or individually. Book display "If you want to study in the US" encouraged to dream about studying abroad.
WOA’s Head Svitlana Usenko introduced the grand and beautiful mountains of North America, referring to the book and image display "We love mountains". A poster display "America 24/7" impressed all WOA’s visitors. Students have been introduced to the rules and played a popular board game «Apple to Apples», which activates the English vocabulary.
The highlight of the visit was the arrival of the WOA’s volunteer Mr. Jason. Young people had a chance to meet a native speaker for the first time in their life. The children were not lost and asked a lot of interesting questions. We believe that this visit will further motivate students to learn English.
Number of participants – 11 persons.
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"Window on America" information and resource center was visited by a group of the 8th year students from the neighboring School №23 with profound study of English. The WOA’s Head presented helpful free library resources for learning and improving the level of English independently.
Students were encouraged to use the WOA’s computers to visit the web-site of the DOUNB library, WOA’s blog and FB-page. Young people examined the WOA’s collections with great interest. They liked everything – collections of books and movies, the display of promotional materials from US colleges and universities "If you want to study in the US", the posters display "America 24/7".
Students learned about the opportunity to use the digital library ‘eLibrary USA’ to prepare academic papers, to watch English movies (in a group and individually), to communicate with native speakers in the speaking club “Gabfest”. The group reviewed the promotional trailer of modern library services, several videos about Chicago and New York, listened to music of the American composer George Gershwin and the youth group Pentatonix.
The 8th graders are still young kids and showed interest in less academic WOA’s articles. They located the shelves of open access table games, instantly learned the rules and had a round of ‘Apples to Apples game’. This game activates the English vocabulary knowledge in a funny way.
The teacher fixed the date for the next visit: in the WOA’s collection the students found a movie they would like to watch. WOA staff and the students look forward to see each other again very soon.
Number of participants – 9 persons.
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The American Teen Club meeting was dedicated to the topic "Results of the Year 2014"
"Window on America" center hosted American Teen Club members, Dnipropetrovsk teenagers, who are willing to improve their English language, get to know about the United States and have a good time! The meeting was lead by the FLEX alumni Darya Gerasymova'13, Hanna Maria Gnuskina’11 and Olga Chychykalo'12.
Everyone was engaged and practiced their speaking skills!
Number of participants – 12 persons.
