This afternoon the WOA Dnipro’s Gabfest Speaking Club had a session with the topic “Women’s History Month”. The theme for National Women's History Month 2018 is “Nevertheless She Persisted: Honoring Women Who Fight All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.”
The group watched several UN videos that explained why gender equality is important for modern societies. We also translated several complicated quotes about feminism, watched videos about its historical stages. Empowerment of women and girls through entrepreneurial efforts was also mentioned in the debate about gender equality.
In the second part of the session the group was offered a Q&A activity with our American guest – a Peace Corp. volunteer Mr. Austin. He teaches English in the town of Vilnohirsk in Dnipro Oblast and was visiting Dnipro in his free time. The group was very excited to meet an American guest and asked him a lot of questions about his life in the USA and his impressions about Ukraine.
Number of participants – 35.
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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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Today’s session of the Gabfest Club (Window on America center, Dnipropetrovsk / Ukraine) had a topic “Veterans Day in the USA”. We were very grateful to our American volunteer Mr. Jason for attending this session as he is a US veteran himself and could tell the first hand stories about the life of the US veterans.
The session started with the introduction of the official web site of the veterans’ affairs department and demonstration of the History channel videos about the history of the Veterans Day celebration. Veterans Day is an official United States public holiday, observed annually on November 11, that honors military veterans, that is, persons who served in the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays, including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I. Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. The United States previously observed Armistice Day, the holiday was renamed Veterans Day in 1954. Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day.
The highlight of the session was the Q&A with the young veteran about his years in the US Army. Mr. Jason demonstrated to the group his army uniform and some other artifacts, introduced new vocabulary and gave an insight into the life of American military personnel.
The group gave Mr. Jason a round of applause when the Gabfest moderator thanked him for one year of volunteering at the WOA’s English-speaking Club and handed him a Gratitude Letter. At the end of the session Mr. Jason’s fans took photos with him in the US military uniform.
Number of participants – 31 persons.
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