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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 ...

Funny English

November 19th children's English club:  We had a group of 16 participants.  We started the club with introductions and then played a game of "Broken Telephone" where a sentence is whispered to one person who then passes it along and on around the group.  After this we ...

In English about painters

“Politics is more difficult than physics.”

Physicist Albert Einstein once said, “Politics is more difficult than physics.” Maybe he would have felt more comforted if he knew that members of the Kherson library Talk Lab English Club were eager and willing to apply their common sense to the mysteries of political science. In a ...

Veterans Day in WOA

America honors all its past and current military men and women with Veterans Day on Friday, Nov. 11, but on Sunday, Nov. 6, members of the library’s Talk Lab English Club got a glimpse of how the holiday came about and into some of its traditions. Veterans Day began as Armistice Day to mark ...

Halloween

Ghosts, skeletons and scary monsters stoked the imagination of the library’s Talk Lab English Club on Sunday, Oct. 30, as members learned about Halloween traditions in America. Halloween is celebrated on Oct. 31, and is mostly a secular holiday, especially for children who dress in costumes ...

Good, better, best

American students once learned proper grammar for using comparative and superlative adjectives by memorizing the following poem: Good, better, best Never let it rest ‘Til your good is better And your better, best. On Sunday, Oct. 23, participants of the library’s weekly ...

Sites, Kindle, iPad for Teachers

"Out to lunch"

Members of the library’s Talk Lab English Club proved they were not “clueless” or “out to lunch” when it came to figuring out the meanings of new vocabulary words and American idioms at a fun with words session on Sunday, Oct. 16. The members also were impressive ...