Family Ties

All families are unique, but they all have some things in common - love ❤️ and support 👐. Thus the last English Speaking Practice was dedicated to relationships and Family Day which was celebrated yesterday in Ukraine. With the members of the meeting we discussed some topic questions, shared our pleasant family moments with each other, thought about family features and how to cope with common family issues. Traditionally we looked through some expressions and idioms in English, such as

- cut from the same cloth;

- an apple doesn’t fall far from the tree;

- take after someone;

- run in the family etc.

If you want to know more expressions or just improve your speaking, we invite you to join us

Let's unite for the future

Europe Day which is held on May 9, celebrates peace 🕊️ and unity 🤝. The English Speaking Practice couldn’t miss the chance to talk about life values and principles. We started off with a discussion of the EU motto “United in Diversity” and shared our thoughts why it’s important to be united and how we can interact with other people. After that we looked through the 6 priorities of the European Commission 2019-2024 and compared them with different countries and our own lives.

We are so grateful that lots of countries support Ukraine and its people during this hard time. And we do believe that soon Ukraine will be a part of that Union 💫.

In search of American holidays

This week the USA is celebrating its birthday. And we’d like to thank every American citizen who supports Ukraine and our people. That’s July 4th is one of the most popular American holidays which people enjoy not only in the US but in the rest of the world. Our Speaking Session we dedicated to this magnificent country and dove into its life a bit.

We discussed some opinions about American culture and then learned some American Idioms which are still very common in English. We did some exercises to practice using them on the interactive platform CoolEnglish that made this learning more effective.