Knowing Martin Luther King Jr.

On January, 18th the USA celebrated the Martin Luther King day or the MLK Day - a federal holiday in the United States. The MLK Day of Service is observed as a “day on, not a day off”. And the topic we chose to discuss yesterday was dedicated to this significant person. We tried to find answers to such questions as:

Why is it important to celebrate MLK Day?

What is the main idea of MLK speech?

What do you like to do for others? 

What is your “dream” for our country?

It is always very interesting to get to know about different holidays from other countries and compare them with ours.

The Countries We Live in

Yesterday Ukraine celebrated its holiday so this session of English Speaking Club Window on America Center for Future Leaders dedicated to the topic “The Countries we live in”. We started with an activity “My country” where all members of the club said one sentence about Ukraine one by one. After that we discussed our opinions about the two countries: the USA and Ukraine and then compared their lifestyles. And of course we had a chance to dream while we made up story about our perfect vacation. Overall it was a nice club where we spoke English a lot with American volunteers that helped us to improve it.

Emotions And Fears

Are you afraid of spiders? And heights? What feelings do you feel in an enclosed space? These and not just questions we asked today on online English speaking club of Window on America for Future Leaders Kherson.

After we voiced our fears by answering the questions from todays "Icebreaker", we moved on to a game called "Feelings" where we had six categories that we chose from by rolling the dice 🎲.

Throughout today's club, we've gotten to know each other and the fears of our participants!

How to Be a Good Friend?

At today's online English Speaking Club meeting of Window on America for Future Leaders center we discussed the topic of Friends and Friendship. At the beginning, we tried to characterize ourselves using the letters of our names. Then we talked about our best friends and reflected on how we first met them. After that, we named famous duos from movies and books, such as: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Frodo and Sam.

We also asked ourselves questions such as: What qualities should a true friend have?, What does the word friend mean to you?, and Do you think it is good idea to borrow money from a friend? At the end of the meeting, we tried something new and did some riddles! We tried to find the answers to some difficult riddles, and although difficult, it was a blast! We hope to see you next time!

Play and Learn

The motto of today's English Speaking Club of Window on America Center for Future Leaders was 'Play and Learn.' At the beginning of the meeting, we played a new Icebreaker game called "Strange Gift". Following that, we played another game "Name your Favorite", a really great board game from “Activate: Games for learning American English.” The participants not only said their favorite things, but they described them with only 3 words! To close our meeting, we played a game called "Taxi Driver" where participants role played different scenarios as taxi drivers from different countries, practicing English by small talking with the passengers! It was a blast, and we hope to see you next time!

Weird Question Game

Do you think it is possible to learn English by asking strange and funny questions? Of course! That's what we did today at our online session of English speaking club of Window on America Center for Future Leaders.

We started with a "Go Fishing Icebreaker", then we played a "Weird Question" game, where we discussed the answers to different questions such as: If you could solve the problem of hunger in the third world or repair the ozone, which would you do?, If you could live anywhere, where would you live?, If the whole world were listening, what would you say?

This Thursday will also be dedicated to Board games, so don't miss the chance to improve your English with WOA FL Kherson and native speakers!

Your Disabilitity is Your Opportunity

On July, 28th Window on America Center for Future Leaders had an online meeting of English speaking club, which was dedicated to famous people with disabilities, as July 26th marked the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

We started with three "Icebreaker" questions: What is one goal you'd like to accomplish during your lifetime?, What qualities do you think make a person's dream come true?, When you were little who was your favorite superhero and why? Then we named thirteen different types of disabilities and remembered famous personalities with these different types of disabilities, such as: Lewis Carroll, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Stephen William Hawking, Vincent Willem Van Gogh and our contemporary Nicholas Jemes Vujicic.

We also discussed the correct expressions for people with special needs, revised some vocabulary, and played the "Association" and "Describe the Word" games.

"Guess Who?" - a fun way to learn English

Do you think playing "Online Speaking Games" is a good way to learn English? Window on America for Future Leaders Kherson proves it every Thursday at online speaking meetings. And And yesterday, June 23, there was no exception because we all gathered on Skype to play another fun and useful games such as “The Yes/No ”, “The Draw My Picture ” and “Guess Who“ games. The last one was prepared by club’s members where they wrote 3 amazing facts about themselves beforehand. Don’t miss a chance to improve your English with native speakers.

Health and Wellness

Everybody is aware of a healthy lifestyle and what to do to be healthy 🍓🥦🥗🤸‍♂️. Yesterday Window on America Center for Future Leaders had an online session of English speaking club where we talked about Health and Wellness. We started with 'Talking cards' activity where visitors talked about: times they got hurt; a healthy lifestyle; their favorite way to exercise; the healthiest person in their family; and health problems they worry about. Then we revised some health vocabulary and tried to explain the meaning of unknown words. 

We also opened up the "6 Dimensions of Wellness" and discussed each type: Emotional, Environmental, Intellectual, Physycal, Social and Spiritual. 

Overall, we improved our english with native speakers🇺🇸 and had fun together!

Quarantine is a time to learn English

“Traveling is a great way to learn English” - everyone agreed with this statement today during the online speakingclub which was held by Window on America Center for Future leaders Kherson. We started with questions and then we learned some travel idioms and tried to find their equivalents in our language.

Native speakers, Andrew Hunsaker and Connelly Molnar, who took part in that meeting too prepared very useful phrases such as “Pop the trunk”, “Traffic Jams”, “Pit stop”, “Are we there yet?” and many others. And at the end we played the taboo game which was fun because we all typed the words connected with traveling and then explained them. So after such meetings we would say that quarantine is a time to learn English. Don’t you agree? ;)

What is love?

It’s a really hard question to find the answer on it. And yesterday during the khersonspeakingclub we tried to discuss this and other questions!

About 20 adults, members of #speakingclub came to woafl_kherson to improve their english with peacecorpsvolunteers. At the beginning we watched a video about the history of valentines_day and learned new vocabulary on this topic, some new phrases, idioms and lovequotes.

Then, working in groups we made a list of words, connected to love and then presented it to others. We had a really great meeting and even didn’t notice that the club had finished. Hope to see all of these wonderfulpeople next time

#healthy lifestyle

Everyone’s having a desire to be #healthy so yesterday’s meeting at Window on America for Future Leaders Kherson was dedicated to #healthylifestyle. Members of #coolspeaking club (most of them are youth) discussed some questions and shared their experiences of healthy living style. Our American volunteers told us how this style of living is different in the United States and we compared it with Ukraine. We also read some #quotes of famous people about health and explained their meaning. Thanks to Americans we could talked about this important topic in English and next Wednesday we decided to continue discussing it.

Meeting of khersonspeakingclub

The topic sleep was discussed during the meeting of khersonspeakingclub which was yesterday at woafl_kherson. Nina Jackson, the peacecorpsvolunteer prepared different activities that were fun to do.

One of these is changingseats where one person who is standing in a circle tells one statement about sleeping and others should change their seats if they agree with that. Also we practiced with idioms and tryed to explain their meaning. As usual at the end of session we were divided into groups and discussed some questions.