Interactive sessions and Trainings For U!

English Club's participants, you are welcome to participate in activities organized by Margaret Hankamp (American PC Volunteer (in Bar). What: interactive sessions and trainings. When: July 14 and July 21. Time: 17.30. Where: Information Center "Window on America" (Research Library named after K.A. Timiriazev, Department of Foreign Literature).

More info: tel. 35-10-59

July 14 - Writing Your Best Resume

July 21 - How to Interview

Summer Movie Session

The users of Vinnytsia Information Center "Window on America" have their summer adventures with ... "Pirates of the Caribbean". They had their first discussion on a movie from a producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor) "Pirates of the Carribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", the thrilling, high-seas adventure with a mysterious twist. Rich in suspence-filled adventure, sword-clashing action, mystery, humor, unforgettable characters and never-before-seen special effects, Pirates is a must-have epic on the grandest scale ever.

"Adventure, Rousing Fun and Excitement on a Grand Scale" (David Sheehan, GBS-TV).

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_caribbean

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 adventure fantasy film based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney theme parks. It was directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The story follows blacksmith Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and pirate Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) as they rescue the kidnapped Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) from the cursed crew of the Black Pearl, captained by Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush).

After 50 Years, Remembering Hemingway's Farewell

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway was 61 years old when he shot and killed himself, 50 years ago, on July 2, 1961

Fifty years ago, on July 2, 1961, the writer who seemed to personify courage and strength put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Ernest Hemingway was 61 years old. He was a boxer, a boozer, a philanderer and big-game hunter who wrote some of the most sublime prose of the English language: short, sharp, piercing sentences that told stories about soldiers, lovers, hunters, bravery, fear and death.

Hemingway had seven novels published in his lifetime, including The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms; six short story collections, and two memoirs. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, and he once wrote that he didn't regret that all the time he had spent shooting lions, catching marlins, chasing Nazi submarines, drinking, carousing and telling tall tales in bars had taken him away from his work. In 1938, he wrote:  In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

More Info: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/02/137540700/after-50-years-remembering-hemingways-farewell

Youth

English Club – June 25, 2011
Task with Partners
Rank the countries in the order you would like to visit them (1-8):
United States: England: India: China:
Brazil:    Kenya:   Cambodia:         Mexico:
Discussion Topic: Youth
“Youth is wasted on the young.”
1.What do you think of this saying? Do you agree or disagree?

2.What was the best time of your childhood? What age would you like to return to?

3.What parts of childhood are you glad are over? What is the most difficult thing about being young?

4.In your opinion, what is the best thing about growing older? In what ways is it better to be older?

Group Contest
Practice with Questions!

Our Schedule
Tuesday, June 28 – Constitution Day – No Club
Thursday, June 30 – No Club
Saturday, July 2 – No Club
Tuesday, July 5 – 1745 Library (Beginners and Intermediate)
Thursday, July 7 – 1730 Library

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Mistakes

English Club – June 23, 2011
Task with Partners
Rank the countries in the order you would like to visit them (1-8):
United States: England: India: China:
Brazil:    Kenya:   Cambodia:         Mexico:

Discussion Topic: Mistakes
1.When you make a mistake, or do something wrong, is it easy for you to admit your mistake?
2.What’s the best way to help another person when they are making a mistake, or are about to make a mistake?

3.Did you ever make a mistake that at the moment seemed bad, but now it is a funny memory?

4.Do you believe that people get better because of their mistakes?

Group Contest

Practice with Questions!

Our Schedule
Saturday, June 25 – 1030 Library
Tuesday, June 28 – Constitution Day – No Club
Thursday, June 30 – No Club
Saturday, July 2 – No Club
Tuesday, July 5 – 1745 Library (Beginners and Intermediate)
Thursday, July 7 – 1730 Library

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Big Decision

English Club – June 18, 2011

Task with Partners

Rank the most beautiful place in Ukraine (1-8):

Kyiv: Lviv: Karpaty: Odessa:

Crimea: Vinnytsia:  Uman:        Kamyanets’-Podilskiy:  

Discussion Topic: Big Decision

1.What do you do when you have to make a big decision? How do you prepare to make the right decision?

2.If you need to make an important decision, do you ask your friends and family for help, or do you like to make decisions on your own?

3.What was one of the biggest decisions of your life? After you made the decision, how did you know if it was the write or wrong one?

4.What was a time when you made a wrong decision? How did you fix the situation?

5.Do you believe in planning your decisions ahead, or do you like to make your decisions in the moment?

Group Contest

If you could have one question answered by the English Club, what would it be?

Our Schedule

Tuesday, June 21 – 1745 Library (Beginners and Intermediate)

Thursday, June 23 – 1730 Library

Saturday, June 18 – 1030 Library

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First Impressions are Forever

  If you could have your dream home, where would it be, and what would it be like?
Discussion Topic: First Impressions are Forever
1.  Do you try to make a good first impression when you first meet someone? How can you do it?
2.  When you meet someone for the first time, what can they do to give you a bad first impression?

3.  Did anyone ever get the wrong idea about you because of a first meeting? Why did they misunderstand you?
4.  What about first dates? What is a good topic for discussion when going on a date with someone for the first time? What is a bad topic?
5.  Do you like to go on Blind dates where you are meeting the person for the veiy first time? Does this situation make you nervous?
Group Activity: Asking Questions
If you could have one question answered by the English Club, what would it be?
Contest
Our Schedule
Saturday, June 18 - 1030 Library
Tuesday, June 21 - 1745 Library (Beginners and Intermediate)
Thursday, June 23 - 1730 Library
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