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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 ...

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From Kherson to America's Yellowstone National Park and back

From Kherson to America's Yellowstone National Park and back – all in less than two hours. Such was the fun excursion for members of the library's Talk Lab English Club on Sunday, Dec. 4, and the only thing that participants had to carry with them was their spirit of adventure for trying ...

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Mr.Bean: master of actions without dialoques

This week we talked about Mr. Bean.  Mr. Bean is an English character whose comedy is based on action, with very little dialogue.  We watched three short skits and the students discussed what they thought about Mr. Bean and his antics.  For one skit we worked on predicting events and ...

International Education Week

Education was the main topic at the Sunday, Nov. 27, session of the library’s Talk Lab English Club. But first, club members offered a moment of silence in memory of those who perished in the famines of 1922, 1933 and 1947, also known as the Holodomor. Talk Lab participants also briefly discussed ...

Thanksgiving Day and children

15 participants of ages from 8 to 13.  Many of the participants were returning we changed our introduction to include our name, a favorite thing and the area of town in which each participant lives.  Our topic for the meeting was American Thanksgiving.  Katherine introduced the holiday ...

Thanksgiving Day

Talk Lab English Club members filled their plates with huge helpings of information about the Thanksgiving holiday at the Sunday, Nov. 20, meeting – just in time for the American celebration, which this year falls on Thursday, Nov. 24. A crossword puzzle, multiple-choice quiz, computer ...