English Speaking club dedicated to The Academy Award Oscar

The meeting was prepared and held by the head of WOA Svitlana Usenko and Svitlana Kolesnikova.

There were exhibits Oscar and You’ve seen the movie… Now read the book.

The club-members discussed modern film-industry, Oscar and its winners.

1)Would you like to work in the movie industry?                  

2)Which movie would you like to live in?

3)What’s the best movie you’ve ever seen?

4)Do you prefer watching movies at the cinema or on TV?

5)Which country makes the best movies?

6)Who is your favourite movie star?

7)What’s the worst movie you’ve ever seen?

8) Are movies good for us?

9) Do you think movies have made society more violent?

10) What movie genre do you like best?

11) Who would you want to play you in a movie based on your life?

12) Would you like a job as a movie critic?

13) What makes a great movie for you?

14) What was the first movie you saw at the movie theater?

15) If you could make a movie, what would it be about?

16) Do you prefer to watch a good movie or a good game of sport?

English Speaking Club

The Center was visited by 5 foreign quests from Brazil (Jassika, Robson Corvalho), Portugal (Joao Teixera), Egypt (Bahaa Hussain), Poland (Karolina). All of them are members of AIESEC – the biggest International non-govermental organization in the world, that provides young people with opportunities to develop leadership, professional and personal traits for positive influence on the society.

Robson Corvalho

The conversation was dedicated to International Woman’s  Day. It was interesting to learn the history of this holiday in the USA and modern traditions of its celebration in different countries.

Small book exhibit responded the question “Woman is…”.

The men of Speaking Club congratulated  the club’s women with the International Woman day.

Karmaz’ Natalka:

Jassika and Karolina

The atmosphere  was so pleasant and friendly. It was so interesting to listen to the stories told us by foreigners.  We had  a nice possibility of communicating to educated people from  different countries. The participants  told us about the  AIESEC organisation in other countries. The young man from Egypt  who has been working in  AIESEC for 7 years informed us about the advantage of his work . Then the participant from Portugal told us about his experience of visiting another countries There were also  international students from Brazil and Poland. We were discussing the traditions in celebration of International Women  Day. It was interesting to know that in Portugal men present flowers only for their beloved women, at work they give women only chocolate. We had wonderful time practicing of English.

The article about Window on America Center

The article about Window on America Center was published in the regional youth newspaper.

Chedleyeva, Karina. America! Oh. How far are you… And maybe… no? // Hochy v proryv: The region youth newspaper for those who want to use brains! – 210. – # 44. – February, 28. – page 7.

You’ve seen the movie… Now read the book

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Book display "You’ve seen the movie… Now read the book"

English Speaking club

The Center was visited by new guests a volunteer from Peace Corp Seth Parkhurst (Texas) and a participant of the program AIESEC Robson Calvalho (Brazil). The club-members asked a lot of questions to the guests and they answered them with pleasure.

A volunteer of the Peace Corp Seth Parkhurst gives some trainings of basketball and volleyball to the pupils in Ukraine, and tells them about HIV and AIDS. He told about his life in America and his experience which he got in Ukraine.

Also everybody listened to the story of Robson Calvalho about his country, capoeira. During the meeting the English self-studying program Rosetta Stone was presented to everybody. And club-members watched a new exhibit You’ve seen the movie… Now read the book (the books and the movies).

Excursions

The center was visited by librarians from district libraries of our region who took part in the seminar in Dnipropetrovsk science region library. Also students of National Metallurgical academy with their teacher Alexandra Myrgorodskaya visited WOA. 

The head of WOA Svitlana Usenko told the history of foundation Center, aims and its achievements. There were two book display New Arrivals and President’s day, so the visitors watched them. Also the head of the Center showed the resources of WOA (audio records, ВМВ-movie, Rosetta Stone – program for self-study foreingn languages) – everything that can help in studying English. 

English speaking club dedicated to the Presidents Day

The Center was decorated with books exhibit and exhibition of posters dedicated to Abraham Lincoln.

The participants exchanged  their views on the institute of presidency, compared the situation in the U.S. and Ukraine.

Who is the father of the American Constitution?

Who of American presidents was elected four times?

Do you like the American political system?

Who is your favorite political figure in the U.S.?  

What qualities make a politician a good political leader?

Do you think it is right to elect the president for more than two terms? Who was (or is) the best U.S. president and why?

Would you like to be a president? What would you change in your country then?

Olya Ignatjuk prepared the elections of the President of the club. She defined criteria for choosing the "wise" president. The first lady was chosen by the president, from those girls who created the best flag for future state.

Excursion

The students of the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine together with the teacher Alexandra Myrgorodskaya visited the center. They reviewed the exhibit of movies about love and a slide-show dedicated to the Valentine's Day.

English speaking club

English speaking club dedicated to Valentine’s Day.

The meeting was prepared and held by Svitlana Usenko, Svitlana Kolesnikova and students of the National Metallurgical Academy Natalka Karmaz’ and Olga Ignatiuk. All the members of the speaking club were very active, so though the meeting took 6 hours, not all materials provided by them were used.

Natalka Karmaz’ presented us with a vivid slide-show “Happy St Valentine’s Day” (“History and famous quotations about Love”)

The participants of the discussion tuned to a romantic wave and expressed their opinions on the following subjects:

A Woman is…, A Man is…, Love is…

The difference between love and infatuation.

What’s your idea of a perfect day?

Olga gave the participants a task to compose a valentine to a subject of their affection.

There was one more wonderful assignment, i.e. to think up a compliment to one’s neighbor. Everybody  told  something good about the friends from the Club.

Also they watched a short clip about how chocolate, the chief gift on Valentine’s Day is made and listened to nice and romantic  music.

It’s worth mentioning that the club members visited an exhibition of art that took place at the library. This one was dedicated to the art of batik (painting on silk fabrics) and enjoyed amazing works by the local artists.

Then there was a small tea party to relax and to chat a little bit about this and that.