Let's talk about Reading

Do you still read books? Our visitors of Cool Speaking club still do it and yesterday they came to Window on America center for future leaders to talk about this topic. We started with "Stand Up/ Sit Down" activity where our guests, native speakers from the United States said a statement and if it applied to anybody they should have stood up.

 Then we watched a video “Why reading is important” and after that all the visitors, working in groups, made a list of some benefits of reading. 

Then we discussed some questions playing the game “4 corners debate” which was really fun and all shared their opinions if they agreed or disagreed with some of the statements. At the end we played another fun and popular game kahoot.

American Life

Sometimes it seems to us that we know a lot about the United States of America but working with native speakers we usually get more information about it. And yesterday, February 27 members of Kherson Speaking Club came to Window on America Center for future leaders on a meeting with Peace Corps Volunteer Nina Jackson. We had a really good activity where Nina wrote some questions which were asked by our visitors about the United States and Ukraine. Then we had a chance to compare these two countries. At the end we looked through the some of  American Stereotypes and discussed wheather it’s true or false.

Languages in our life

Why learning languages are so important in today’s life 💁‍♀️. This topic was discussed yesterday at Window on America Center for future leaders during the Cool Speaking club. We started with "Ice breakers" activity where visitors shared their experience with language learning. Then we watched a video “The importance of learning languages” and discussed some questions. It was fun to get to know about some techniques and studying methods that are used by our visitors to remember vocabulary and practice the languages. Working in groups is really good activity for everybody because all of members can improve their speaking skills with native speakers. We also looked through the Language Idioms and found out their meaning in Ukrainian.

On the Move

You didn’t know where to spend your Sunday - you should have definitely come to Window on America for future Leaders and practiced your English with us. We had 3 groups of visitors and talked about transport in general and of course public transport in cities. With youth we discussed more questions on this topic and did some activities. One of them was to compare different means of transport using comparative adjectives. With kids we learned words and word phrases, listened the song and worked with different worksheets. Next week we are going to continue this topic so if you are interested in speaking english - join any group.

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