The young visitors once again excited the DOUNB library's silence. A regular training session for younger schoolchildren took place at “Window on America” Center. The “Grass-Hoppers” Club penetrated deeper into the topic "Ukraine’s Tourist Attractions" with WOA’s volunteer Anna Motorina.
We enlarged our stories with adjectives. Anna supported us with her ideas how to write the advertisement brochure. We believe that the parents of our club members will also contribute to this activity at home.
She told the club members in English about the capital of Ukraine - Kyiv, Cossacks’ Khortytsya, Kamyanets-Podilskyi castle, musical fountains of Vinnitsa, the landscape park "Sofiyivka".
The best responses were graded in American style – with A, B, C.
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The "Window on America" center (Dnipro / Ukraine) had a presentation of free resources for those wishing to improve their English skills. The presentation was arranged for the third-year students group from the Dnipro National University named after O.Gonchar (DNU).
They listened to the presentation of the helpful library resources for languages’ study and free resources for improving the English skills. Students examined the WOA’s technical equipment, the DOUNB Library’s collection of documents in foreign languages at the respective department, the poster display “Homeland in Exile” and “DOG – America’s favorite pet”.
Students learned about the popular WOA’s activities:
- free access to the digital “eLibrary USA” to prepare academic papers,
- possibility to watch US movies with authentic soundtrack (in a group or individually),
- possibility to meet native speakers at the “Gabfest” English-speaking club sessions,
- “Activate English” course.
The students reviewed the promotional trailer about the library resources and received promotional materials. They were invited to follow the WOA’s announcements via the website, social networks (Facebook), to view reference materials and on-line links to the blog.
Number of participants – 12 persons.
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«Wednesday Movie Club» in DniproWOA offered the big screening of the film “Life or Something Like It”.
The warm discussion followed the film watching and touched the different aspects of the film: the actors’ playing, the director’s work, the soundtracks and the lifestyles of the fiction heroes.
Life or Something Like It is a 2002 romantic comedy/drama film directed by Stephen Herek. The film focuses on television reporter Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie) and her quest to find meaning in her life. The original music score was composed by David Newman. The film's taglines are: "Destiny is what you make of it" and "What if you had only 7 days to live?"
Number of participants – 8.
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Activate English 8.9.: Transport.
This afternoon the WOA Dnipro’s Express-English group practiced conversation about transport.
For the warm up activity they shared opinions about private and public transport. The car owners told the group when do they use their cars in a big city like Dnipro and where do they park them.
The challenging task was to make a list of “do’s and don’ts” for foreigners in Dnipro’s public transport. To wrap up the session the students talked about the advantages and disadvantages of ships, planes and trains.
The home task is to learn the topics – “Check- in at a Hotel and Airport”.
Participants number – 40 persons.
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The young visitors once again excited the DOUNB library's silence. A regular training session for younger schoolchildren took place at “Window on America” Center. The “Grass-Hoppers” Club meeting had the topic "Ukraine’s Tourist Attractions". It was prepared and held by the WOA’s volunteer, the 10th grade school № 9 student Anna Motorina.
She told the club members in English about the capital of Ukraine - Kyiv, Cossacks’ Khortytsya, Kamyanets-Podilskyi castle, musical fountains of Vinnitsa, the landscape park "Sofiyivka".
The best responses were graded in American style – with A, B, C.
Number of participants – 6 (children and parents).
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This afternoon WOA Dnipro (Window on America center, Ukraine) was visited by Maria a FLEX program alumnus in 2016.
She offered the WOA patrons a slide show about her stay in state Washington, shared her experiences from the American high school.
Masha’s Q&A session with WOA Dnipro’s activists gave them a better insight into the life of average Americans.
Participants number – 30 persons.
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International Fact-Checking Day.
This afternoon the Gabfests session (Window on America center, Dnipro, Ukraine) had a complicated task – to draw attention of the club members to the importance of verifying the information and its sources.
We focused on the basic strategies of fact evaluations and introduced the basic terms used in the exposure of fake news - bot, bot net, troll, spam, etc. The educational videos helped to illustrate the topic and introduce the new terms. Our US volunteer Mrs. Tamara provided explanations for difficult terms or notions.
The session was educational for all the participants of the session.
Participants number – 30 persons.
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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 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: Present 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).
Have a look at more pictures, please
