Новини
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Saint Nicholas
22.12.2014December 19 is Saint Nicholas' Day in Ukraine. December 21 the library’s “Window on America” weekly talk-club meeting was attended by 12 club members and devoted to Saint Nicholas. We learned the story of his life, his transformation into Santa Claus, and Santa Claus’ ...
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Guessing and singing
15.12.2014December 14 the library’s “Window on America” weekly talk-club meeting was attended by 14 club members. The program was useful and funny. Firstly we had riddles. Almost half of them were solved without help. Then we were studying unknown words and lyrics of the most famous carol ...
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Library investigation
09.12.2014December 9 pupils of the city school №12 (20 persons) had “investigation” in library’s department of foreign languages documents. Using commissaire Maigret’s methods children had to find “disappeared” books by Georges Simenon. The books were successfully found, ...
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Rosa Parks
08.12.2014On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the bus’s colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. So December 7 the library’s “Window on America” weekly talk-club meeting was devoted to Rosa Parks. Talk-club ...
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American literature again
03.12.2014December 2 the staff of library’s WOA center visited city school №36 . The meeting was devoted to three outstanding American writers Ernest Hemingway, Clifford Donald Simak, and James Fenimore Cooper. Pupils (42 persons) were very interested in listening the information and taking part in interactive ...
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Thanksgiving 2014
01.12.2014November 30 the library’s “Window on America” weekly talk-club meeting was devoted to Thanksgiving Day. This year it іs celebrated November 27. Club members (14 persons) were watching short film about history and traditions of this holiday and another one ...
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Hedy Lamarr
24.11.2014November 23 the “Window on America” weekly talk-club meeting was attended by 11 club members. They were coming to know Hedy Lamarr. She wasn’t just beautiful and gifted actress but also smart inventor. Her invention is used now not only in the US navy but as a starting point of ...
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Games plus English
17.11.2014November 16 the library’s “Window on America” weekly talk-club meeting was started with upcoming holidays enumeration. Then club members (16 persons) played the game “Name 3…” taken from eLibraryUSA and the game of unspeakable fun “Taboo”. In friendly ...
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International Education Day
13.11.2014November 13 in a framework of International Education Week the library’s “Window on America” center was the place of meeting of English teachers having advanced training. Teachers (14 persons) were told about WOA website, websites about English learning and education ...
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Let’s compare
10.11.2014November 9 the “Window on America” weekly talk-club meeting was started with all members (16 persons) answers how they have spent this week. Then we continued with “Сathy’s Cards” questions. Many of them caused comparison of American and Ukrainian realities.
