Life outdoor is better

There are 8 principles of health and being outdoors is one of them. Because spring 🌷 and summer☀️are seasons when you can be outside more often, so we decided to talk about that.

We discussed some questions and shared our opinions wheather it’s better to spend vacations in nature🏕️ or in a 🏙️, which things we like about countryside and what are disadvantages of it. We also reminisced about our past outdoor adventures in our Kherson Oblast 🌊⛵️. 

Of course we had some time for new phrases and idioms on this topic which we could practice afterwards. Thank to our native speaker 🇨🇦🇺🇸 who helps us improve our speaking in a fun way 😊.

What's love and kindness in this world?

What does it mean to be kind anyway🤔? Is it helping or giving? Should it be easy?

These questions were discussed during the last English Practice with our native speakers, VSPP Varley Paul and former PC Volunteer Nina Jackson.
We started off with an ice-breaker “Name it…” where our club’s members shared their thoughts about what love and kindness are.
After that we looked through some phrasal verbs and idioms related to the topic.

Imagine that...

Do you know how to use the Internet safely?

February 6 is considered as the Safer Internet Day so we couldn’t help but talk about it with the members of English Speaking Club. We started with the warm up activity “Imagine that…” and gave them some statements about different technologies so they would share their thoughts and opinions. After that our guest from Pennsylvania, VSPP Varley Paul taught us some English expressions and idioms. Thank you all for the opportunity to communicate with each other and have fun while learning English 😊

Comparing Lifestyle

Today we had a nice online meeting of Speak Out Club where we talked about people’s lifestyles. Our special guest from the USA, Varley Paul prepared a slide show with great and useful vocabulary, after which she made our visitors talk a lot. We discussed our morning routine activities, weekend preferences and seasonal traditions comparing them with life in Ukraine and the United States. At the end of the session we could improve our English doing "Would you rather" activity, which is always fun.

If you’re interested in improving your English we’d love to invite you to join our next meeting, on December 26th at 15.45 Kyiv time.

New meetings of Speak Out Club

That was a great start of new online meetings where we all gathered to improve our English with the Virtual Service Pilot Participant from Philadelphia. Varley Paul shared an amazing presentation, video and pictures of her city and Pennsylvania State, after which the visitors had some conversation.

We’re impressed that most people who joined this session were from Kherson and they are currently staying in Kherson too. What brave people.

A big thanks to @peacecorpsukraine for support and participation in this event.We want to inform you that we’re going to have such meetings every Tuesday at 15.45 time.

Youth is the time to explore life and talents

Youth is the time to explore life and talents. And we are so proud that Ukrainian youth is very talented and that during the war it keeps going and living their life whether in Ukraine or abroad. Because last weekend the International Youth Day was celebrated in European Countries, we talked about teens and youths. We reminisced about our teen life and discussed some challenges that young generation face to nowadays and compared them with our challenges. It was a really good practice with lots of speaking

Crossing Borders with English

Crossing borders is much easier when you know a language and understand people. English is one of the known languages around the world, so we’re improving it during our meetings. Lots of speaking activities and exercises are done by our visitors which help them feel comfortable and not afraid of making mistakes. We invite you to join our practices and do your best in learning English.

"Alias" Summer Edition

It’s been almost a week of summer and we all have plans how to make it memorable. Of course everyone has a great desire for Peace in . Today we had a nice Speaking Practice related to Summertime . As always we discussed some questions, watched a video “Expectations VS Reality of Summer” and played “Alias” game.