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Grand Canyon

How do you want to tour America's Grand Canyon? Hiking? Mule ride? Airplane? Helicopter? Whitewater river raft? Train? Or motor vehicle, such as your own car or a tour bus, with stops at various lookout points where you can just gaze over this amazing 1.2 million acre natural wonder? These ...

Presidents Day

The United States of America has had 44 presidents – including the current president, Barack Obama - since this powerful position began with George Washington in 1789, which was 223 years ago. On Sunday, Feb. 19, members of the library's Talk Lab English Club learned about some of these ...

Great Victorian Writer

English with Pleasure

2/18/12 – 6 participants We began English club with introductions where we gave our name and something interesting about ourselves.  The first activity was a word guess and formation activity.  Students were given definitions of words and then must assemble a new word using the first ...

Old Victorian Novelist

Charles Dickens is English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens's works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy. He had also experienced in his youth oppression, when he was forced to end school in early teens and work in a ...

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 ...