Новини
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Games + Grammar = Amazing English
30.01.2021 15:49What is the best way to repeat a complex grammatical topic? You are right, by playing grammar games. That’s how we revised all types of so-called -ing forms of English verbs at the next meeting of the English Grammar Club at Window on America in Kherson. - We repeated the rules, playing Truth ...
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Fairy Tales Are Always in Fashion
26.01.2021 16:52We all read fairy tales in our childhood (and not only). Maybe not everyone knows that in the time of Richard III in Cheshire lived a forester Ketterling, who smiled ferociously when he could catch a poacher. They say that he became the prototype of the Cheshire cat. But everyone will agree that instructive ...
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Do We Believe Fake News?
25.01.2021 17:13Last few years we heard a lot about unreliable or fake information. For example, one of the most popular social networks reported that they have found about 50 million posts with false information about COVID-19. Fortunately, we can say that most Internet users avoid such news, especially if they are ...
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Gerund in English
23.01.2021 19:09Our English Grammar club looks forward to the meeting in the library next week. Meanwhile, we continued to study the functions of verbs ending in -ing. You will probably agree that English is a very concise language. English texts are usually 20-40 % shorter than texts in Ukrainian. The gerund, a form ...
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Winter Readings
19.01.2021 10:53The peoples of the North have many words that name ‘snow’ in different states in their vocabulary. The Eskimos have 24 notions, the Sami - 41. Fortunately for online visitors of the Good Reads club at Window on America in Kherson, the English language doesn't have as many ‘snow’ ...
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Family Roles in Ukraine and the USA
18.01.2021 12:04The next meeting of the English Speaking Club at Window on America in Kherson was active and personal, although it was online. We talked about the roles we play in our families and our parents' families. Thanks to Tom Laughlin and Francisco Santillan, we could compare our experiences with other ...
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What is the Present Participle?
16.01.2021 15:30The English Grammar Club gathers at Window on America in Kherson in any conditions and any weather. After a short Christmas break, we talked about the winter holidays and our best gifts. We revised the grammatical topic Participle 1 or Present Participle, studied to add the ending -ing to verbs, and ...
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Why an Elephant Can Escape from the Circus
12.01.2021 14:27As every week, the Good Reads Club gathered to read another exciting story in English. The teenagers learned about the adventure of the small elephant Minny. She escaped from the circus, walked around the city, and saved the house and the little boy from the fire. The club visitors learned to take care ...
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We Study English Online
11.01.2021 12:59The library is temporarily closed to users, but this doesn’t stop the English for Beginners lessons. On Saturday, we continued to work online. The visitors revised the rules of Past Simple somewhat forgotten during the holidays. They made some grammar exercises. We also read interesting texts about ...
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The Two Gifts
04.01.2021 12:14The center "Window on America" in the Kherson Oles Honchar library continues to work, despite the holidays. Young English lovers have expressed a desire to spend one hour reading the short story "The Two Gifts" by O. Henry. The readers were happy to answer questions about the ...
