Question and Answer session with American diplomats

On September 5 at 5.30 Sumy Window on America center will host meeting with Liz Horst and Jermel McGaskey ( Embassy of the USA, Ukraine). We will speak on general topics with stress to economic issues.

You are welcome!

English-Speaking Club

English-speaking club has its 2 meetings in July and you are welcome to visit us!

We've discussed plenty of topics (social, psychological issues), created posters and enjoyed American sweets. The participants of our club had an opportunity to improve their English with David and Ashley, our volunteers.

Looking forward to meeting you.

Bring your friends with you!

Let's speak English!

Photo Exhibit ” America the Unexpected”

  On July 16 the photo exhibition” America the Unexpected” has opened at the Sumy Oblast Research Library, Window on America Center sponsored by the American Embassy in Kiev. Ivan Dudkin is arguably the finest photographer of his time, and without a doubt the most prolific. He is known not only in Ukraine but abroad too for his photography. There were 67 his personal photo exhibitions in 24 cities of Ukraine also in the USA, India, Poland, Vietnam. His photographs have been published in such magazines as “International Tourism” and “Welcome to Ukraine”.  Ivan Dudkin visited the USA for 7 times, traveled to 28 states and thinks that the United States of America is one of the most unique and comfortable country in the world.

 If you want to see wonderful photos, to know more about the USA you are welcome!

Exhibition will be on display till 29 of July.

Playing Games

Welcome to English-Speaking Club. Last month we had a variety of topics discussed:


4.06 – Playing game “Family Feud”

11.06 – Free conversation and playing game “Feud”

18.06 – Summer projects. We are enjoying summer together with our English – Speaking club. Summer is a time of holidays and vacations. Together with our PC volunteer David we are also having a great time. Various board games are getting more popular among our patrons, as they help to entertain oneself, to learn new vocabulary easily, to communicate. Learning English is getting more pleasant. Everyone is invited to enjoy these or other activities at our English – Speaking club in September after summer break.

Games Day

On 12 of June Sumy Window on America center was visited by the high school students. In summer when the time of vacations and holidays comes, our center becomes a favorite place of leisure activity for many schoolchildren. They just came to the library to learn some new games. We showed and tested  new collection of board games such as “Taboo” and “Monopoly”, also our guests collected puzzle map of the United States. Our staff and schoolchildren worked together to help each other to learn new games because the best way to learn new game is in a group. We had a great fun playing board games!

 

New information and fun for children

On June 3^rd Sumy Window on America Center run two tours for pupils of the 6^th and 11^th forms of the school №2 and the tour for the pupils of the 9^th form from the school №17. On the whole our Centre visited 78 children. We told them about printed resources of the Sumy WOA and made brief demonstrations of the Kindles and iPads.  Besides we gave them information about Rosetta Stone program designed to help learn English and told about work of the PC volunteers in Sumy, about our clubs and courses of foreign languages. After that each group of children played Kinect games.

Conversation Circle

There were four meetings of the Conversation Circle in May. During the first one on May 8^th the members of the club played the card game “Uno”. During the second meeting on May 15^th topic “What I am going to do in summer” was discussed. After that the members of the Circle played the game “Mad Lips”. The third and the fourth meetings of the Conversation Circle on May 22^nd and 29^th were also devoted to the developing talkative habits during the playing learning games such as “Hot Seat”, “M’n M’s” and others. The fourth meeting was the last one under the leadership of Jennifer Alton. She is leaving for home after two years in Ukraine. Members of the Conversation Circle wished her good luck. We are very grateful Jane for her active participation in the work of our Conversation Circle. The meetings of the club have been extremely fascinating and everybody really enjoyed them. A lot of various interesting topics and situations that were of great use for the English learners were discussed during the latest period. Good luck, Jane!!!