Новини

Welcome, St. Valentine!

  Remember the teenage kissing game “spin the bottle”? On Sunday, Feb. 12, members of the library’s Talk Lab English Club turned this game into a new way to learn and practice English idioms as part of a program about Valentine’s Day. The session also featured some ...

Super Bowl in the Library

America’s professional football championship game was played on Sunday, Feb. 5, but it’s much more than an important sporting event. The activity is the centerpiece of what has become America’s unofficial major holiday, a day known as Super Bowl Sunday. Millions of Americans build ...

Groundhog Day

With the temperature at minus-16 and the nearby Dnipro River frozen over, Sunday, Jan. 22, was a great day for members of the library's Talk Lab English Club to talk about the winter weather. Almost all of the 18 Talk Lab participants who braved the subzero weather wondered just how long such ...

Human Trafficking

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, enacted by the United Nations in 1948, proclaims in Article 1 that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” and, in Article 3, that “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.” Continuing, ...

Child Stories,Tongue Twister, and Games

1/21/12 – Eight participants came to the "Funny English" club.  After our introductions, we worked on a tongue twister: Around the rugged rocks ran ragged rascals; the kids were able to get pretty quick at saying this twister.  Next, we had a listening exercise around similar ...

Your Pocket Library

Martin Luther King Jr.

The American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 83 years old on Sunday, Jan. 15, so it was fitting that members of the library's Talk Lab English Club spent part of the day learning about his life, the important cause that he died for, and how he is honored in the United ...

Christmas in USA

The winter season in America has something festive for everyone, with the Christmas holiday on Dec. 25 and New Year’s on Jan. 1 having the most popular celebrations. Other festivities include the Jewish Chanukkah, African-American Kwanzaa, and Chinese and Vietnamese New Year’s. Members ...

Christmas Holiday

Journalism and our world

Every December, American journalists spend hours preparing reports on the top news stories of the year. On Sunday, Dec. 11, members of the library's Talk Lab English Club took on such a job as they nominated and voted their choices for the most important and interesting events of 2011. There ...