The "Window on America" Center in Dnipro & "Gabfest Club"

12 December, 2012

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

“Wednesday Movie Club” at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.

Mr. Joseph Battilega continues his project of introducing American idioms and difficult expressions to the Movie Cub members for the better comprehension of the film content.

At the Window on America center in Dnipropetrovsk the film «Ferris Bueller's Day Off» (1986) was presented to all who wish to improve their language skills.

If you want to study in the USA

Book display «If you want to study in the USA», new version.

10 December, 2012

Students' visit

Today the group of students of National Mining University visited Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) again.

Svitlana Usenko, the head of Window on America center, presented the resources of the Center (Books, Internet, Wi-Fi, Movie Club, English Speaking Club GABFEST, Rosetta Stone, elibraryUSA, iPad, Kindle etc.).

Students saw short movie about WOA center and Dasha Kluyeva's photos display “Winter Wonderland in Fargo”.

The number of visitors – 5 persons.

08 December, 2012

Opera House

Today’s session at the GABFEST speaking club (at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) had a topic “OPERA HOUSE”.
We have read and translated an article about the traditional layout of the opera house. From the article we have learned a lot of useful terms which are used for different areas of the Opera Theater. A typical opera house consists of several zones:
• a stage and backstage,
• an orchestra pit,
• the auditorium,
• facilities for costumes
• set building.

We have learned a lot of practical information about the advantages and disadvantages of such prestigious seats as the stalls and boxes.
The information was illustrated by several videos. The most impressive was the video tour of the backstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the world famous theater of enormous size.

The unofficial part of the session was a conversation with our new club member from Nigeria. Toby told us about his home country and answered several questions asked by Ukrainian club members.

Dnipropetrovsk Opera House

Today’s session at the GABFEST speaking club (at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) had a topic “OPERA HOUSE”.

A group of Club members have visited the Dnipropetrovsk Opera House backstage prior to the session. Our tour guide was Ms. Daria Belaya, the young and talented chief artist of the theater. Among the theater visitors were our foreign friends from USA and Germany. This was their first visit backstage and they have been impressed with their new experience.

One of the surprising facts was a premier show of this season at the Dnipropetrovsk Opera. The new performance has a title “Jesus”. The music used in the performance was written by an American composer John Debny.

J.C. Debney is a film composer who was Academy Award nominated for his score for Mel Gibson's “The Passion of the Christ”. Mr. Debney has donated the right to use his music in the “Jesus” performance at the Dnipropetrovsk Opera Theater.

The participants of the theater tour shared their impressions with the club members. The topic about the Opera reminded us about the forthcoming Xmas season. We all decided to pay a visit to Dnipropetrovsk Opera this winter. The first choice will be one more premier of this season - “The SNOW QUEEN”. Our American friends will start the acquaintance with the theater at the Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Nutcracker” on Sunday.

The unofficial part of the session was a conversation with our new club member from Nigeria. Toby told us about his home country and answered several questions asked by Ukrainian club members.

The number of visitors – 30 persons.
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