Movie Club

The students of the National Mining University of Ukraine together with their teacher Olesya Cherkaschenko visited the center.

They saw slide show dedicated to the Window on America history and  its job activities. After they saw movie and discussed it.   

The students received advertising materials.

English Speaking club - World Television Day

The meeting was dedicated to International Day of Television and International Day of Philosophy. The topic was “A philosophical view on television”.

At first there was an introduction as always to get acquainted with new club-members.

Then watched a slide-show prepared by Svitlana Kolesnykova. The presentation showed the history of inventing television, told about the people, whose inventions gave a way of television towards people. 

The questions were discussed: What are the advantages and disadvantages of television? Does television prevent people from communicating in the family? Which of two will win: Television or Internet?

Club-members learnt new information about the history of Television, determined the role of television in their life.

In March 1998 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 November as World Television Day commemorating the date on which the first World Television Forum was held in 1996.

Since inception in the U.S. in 1940, TV commercials have become one of the most effective, persuasive, and popular method of selling products of many sorts, especially consumer goods. During the 1940s and into the 1950s, programs were hosted by single advertisers. This, in turn, gave great creative license to the advertisers over the content of the show.
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English Speaking club - Gone with the Wind

The meeting was dedicated to the birthday of Margaret Mitchell, an American writer (1900-1949). She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her epic novel Gone with the Wind.

The club-members watched a slide-show dedicated to the writer, they learnt heroes of the novel, read some quotes of them.

The people who read this novel shared their impressions with each another. We discussed the characters of Scarlett O’Hara and other heroes, discussed the war in this novel and its influence on the actions of the heroes, and the role of the woman in the novel.

We discussed the quotes of the heroes of the novel Gone with the Wind.

The book-exhibit to the 175-anniversary of Mark Twain

The book-exhibit was presented dedicated to the 175-anniversary of American writer, humorist, writer of political essays, founder of critical realism direction in American Literature Mark Twain.

English Speaking club - American Education System

This meeting was prepared and held by a volunteer of our center Yekateryna Ivchenko.

The main task of the meeting was to give more information on educational system of the USA and to show the opportunities to get high education there.

The club-members read the text and watched a few videos on YouTube. They learnt that American educational system has difficult problems. These problems were compared with ones in Ukraine, a lot of common things were found. Children know mathematics and geography badly, they read little, teachers are complaining of their little salaries, students – of the high fee.

The club-members told what kind of a profession they wanted to get in their childhood and what education they have now.

It was interesting to discuss the quotes of famous people of the past and modern times. Many people liked the words of John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela.

John F. Kennedy: The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Nelson Mandela: Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The meeting had a funny break: everyone watched a video, the main hero of which was a winner of beauty contest but a not very intelligent girl.

The topic of home education was touched. People recalled about drawing and music. Helen showed her drawings.

At the end of the discussion we understood that education is never-ending process. Education continues all our life.

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English Speaking club - Bill Gates's succsess

The Man Who Has Everything.

A slide show dedicated to Bill Gates

The notion of “Success”  was the main aspect of discussion. The club-members discussed the ways and conditions of its achievement. It was useful and interesting to find out facts about the life of this famous businessman- entrepreneur, the computer genious of the USA,  Bill Gates. A slide show dedicated to this person was shown.

The other questions were answered:
- Are the starting conditions important for achieving success?
- Is influence and help of the parents important?  
- Does “success” mean   “ money”, “a lot of money”?

Katya have talked about Bill Gates and Warren Buffett friendship

Everybody realized  that American billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett do a lot of  charity work and urge  other people to do the same, because the world needs the help, and they are the only people who can give it to the world.

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The members of the ESC learned about the activity of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Ukraine: the Region Science Library got a grant for a realization of a project “Bibliomist”.

When we become rich enough, we will follow the example of Bill and Melinda Gates!

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A book-exhibit to the World Children Day

A book-exhibit to the World Children Day was represented.

This is literature for children of famous book publishing houses such as Sсholastic, Childrеn’s Press. The books are encyclopedias, atlases, reference editions, books dedicated to American holidays, history of the USA, its cities, the way of becoming independent, outgoing figures of American politics and culture.

«MEET the United States of America» for kids

The «Window to America» Center was visited by the group of schoolchildren of school № 143 together with their teacher of English Olga Gavrilyuk.

The Meeting was devoted to an acquaintance with the United States of America.

Guests watched the slide show «MEET the United States of America», from which they learnt about a geographical location of the country, founder of America Christopher Columbus, native population - Indians, people which created history of country – first presidents and political figures, about the American icons of pop-culture, the biggest cities are centers of economics and culture, about architectural views of these cities.

It was useful for pupils to learn about the national symbols of the USA –  flag, bald eagle, rose, White house, Congress, Statue of Liberty, memorials in honour to the presidents Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.

The Head of the center «Window to America» Svitlana Usenko paid a regard to a rich collection of bright and interesting child's books which would help to improve pupils’ knowledge of English.

Schoolchildren were eager to hear new information. They thanked sincerely in the end of the meeting.

After presentation we had tea together.

Number of participants – 19.
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