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Brief. Impressive. Ernest Hemingway
19.06.2019 06:05In a 1992 letter to Canadian humorist John Robert Colombo, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke recounts it thus: while lunching with friends at a restaurant, Hemingway bets the table ten dollars each that he can craft an entire story in six words. After the pot is assembled, Hemingway writes «For ...
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My Fair Lady
17.06.2019 09:13Pygmalion remains Shaw's most popular play. Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Young people know this work thanks to the movie My Beautiful Lady (1964). The play was adapted only after the author's death. He had refused to allow a musical adaptation ...
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What do we know about English-speaking countries?
13.06.2019 12:03Pupils of Kherson School of Humanitarian Work joined Honcharivka’s «Summer in the Library» and visited a chance-quiz «Mad races in English-speaking countries» in the foreign language. The pupils successfully answered to quiz questions at the Australia station, searched for ...
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Drawing improves English language skills
13.06.2019 06:15You use your hands every day to do thousands of things, but have you ever wondered why you refer to your fingers by names like "thumb" and "pinky"? A ring is a finger between the middle finger and the little finger, and is so named because in some cultures it is the finger on which ...
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Our suggestions for Summer Language Camp
11.06.2019 13:12Hot weather does not give you a good rest, does it? Are you bored and you want to do something interesting and useful? Well, come to the foreign language department and the center "Window on America". We have a lot of interesting things, for example, an interactive table and an interactive ...
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Effective communication
10.06.2019 13:54We say one thing, the other person hears something else, and misunderstandings, frustration, and conflicts ensue. For many of us, communicating more clearly and effectively requires learning some important skills. A study commissioned in 2008 revealed that employees spend 2.8 hours per week dealing with ...
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We are what we read
10.06.2019 13:47Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. It took Bradbury just nine days to write Fahrenheit 451 — and he did it in the basement of the UCLA library on a rented typewriter. The life of foreign writers is fascinating and therefore the literary rebus «Book stories or stories ...
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In the fabulous world
06.06.2019 11:45«Summer Camp in the library» is continuing, as well as the adventures of schoolchildren who came to Kherson Window on America center. This week, the students of junior classes of Bilozerskiy Lyceum and Kherson school № 44 came to us. Students took part in the literary puzzle "Book stories ...
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O. Henry's Workshop? A Prison Cell
04.06.2019 12:57William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. In 1896, he was accused of taking money from a bank that wasn't his. Instead of staying in Texas, he ran away to Honduras. When his wife became sick, Porter came back to be with her before she died. ...
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Why does the library need a Bike Book Desk?
03.06.2019 14:18There is no doubt that the book is useful for the brain. Reading does a number of things that helps to heighten overall brain function and increase memory. On the other hand, the exercise (fitness) bike helps to stabilize the heart rhythm, strengthen the muscles and nervous system. A fitness bike is ...
