Earth Hour with Spiderman / Година Землі разом зі Спайдерменом.

Spider-Man will be the first superhero ambassador for Earth Hour, the global movement organised by WWF. This year Earth Hour launches Earth Hour Blue, a digital crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform for the planet. The cast of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, and director Marc Webb, want you to be a superhero for the planet. 

Earth Hour / Година Землі.

Earth Hour is an annual event which asks people to switch off all lights and use no electricity for an hour. The aim is to get people thinking about the planet they live on and the energy they use. 
The end of March is around the time of the spring and autumn equinoxes in the northern and southern hemispheres respectively, so sunset times in both hemispheres are at similar times. This means that a global ‘lights out’ event has most visual impact at this time of year. 
The WWF’s famous panda logo recently helped to promote Earth Hour. In 2014, the WWF asked their Facebook users to name a panda - not a real animal but a cute panda teddy bear. The WWF also encouraged everyone to join in by tweeting a #passthepanda selfie of themselves either in panda costume or wearing panda face paints.
My 6-th formers decided to join this project and here is their passthepanda selfie:

Just for fun

And how do you learn English? / А как изучаете английский вы?;)

Hooray! Spring Holidays! / Ура! Весенние каникулы! :)

Dear friends! Enjoy your spring holidays!;)

World Theatre Day / Всемирный День Театра.

World Theatre Day is celebrated every year on March 27. It was established in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute. This International Day is traditionally held under the slogan: "Theatre as the  mean of understanding and peace among nations".
My 7th formers have got a special lesson today. It was devoted to the theatre and William Shakespeare's poetry.

At the beginning of the lesson my pupils watched a presentation about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre.

Then Valery Lymar and Diana Grebenkova read the main facts about William Shakespeare and his works.

After that we dived into the fantastic world of poetry by W.Shakespeare. Roman Yagnyuk and Eugene Lymar read W.Shakespeare's sonnets.

And Elligah Kapustyan recited the great Hamlet's monologue "To be or not to be..."

Thanks for your project dedicated to the World Theatre Day.

Spring is here!

Spring has come! I wish all of you a good spring mood!;)

Pupils' projects: "My native village" / Учнівські проекти: "Моє рідне село".

My 5-th formers have prepared a newspaper on the topic "My native village". They described their native Yurchenkovo using the words they learnt at the lessons. 

Here is my pupils' work:

 Well done!;)

It's interesting: Ok / Это интересно: Ok.

Yesterday the most popular word in the world "OK" celebrated its 175 anniversary. 

March 23, 1839 was the date when it first appeared in the  popular American newspaper The Boston Morning Post. 
We don't know exactly the origin of this word. According to one version, in the 30-ies of the XIX century there was a fashion on abbreviations, and journalists reduced phrase all correct  to "OK".

International Day of Happiness / Всемирный День Счастья.

In 2012 the United Nations declared March 20 as the International Day of Happiness . It was established to remind the public that happiness is one of the main goals of humanity.
So be happy, my dear friends! ;)

English for young learners: "Do you like"?/Англійська мова для наймолодших: "Тобі подобається?"

Let's practise to say what we like and don't like. And Let's remember the words of the topic "Food"/Давайте потренуємося говорити, що нам подобається, а що - ні. А також пригадаємо слова теми "Їжа"
Let's sing a song!;)

English tongue twisters: Sound [s] / Английские скороговорки.

Let's practise sound [s];)

           Seven slick slimey snakes slowly sliding southward.

English in pictures: Describing character / Английский в картинках: описывая характер.

St. Patrick's Day / День св. Патрика.

Today is St. Patrick's Day, my dear friends! 

And here is a special Irish blessing for you:

Our school life: Taras Shevchenko's birthday / Наше шкільне життя: День народження Тараса Шевченка.

On March 9 we celebrate the 200-th anniversary of our national Ukrainian bard Taras Shevchenko.

On this day my pupils recited Shevchenko's poems not only in Ukrainian but in English, too:

We also got acquainted with Shevchecnko as an artist watching the presentation:

At the end of our literary party my girls sang a song "My evening star" by T. Shevchenko:

Taras Shevchenko was a great pesonality who made a great contribution to our Ukrainian literature. We will always remember him and his great poems.

Thank you very much, my dear girls, for your wonderful work at the literary party!

The 8-th of March/8 Марта

The Gerund / Герундій

Герундій - це безособова форма дієслова, яка поєднує в собі ознаки дієслова та іменника.

Дієслово + ing = герундій

В реченні герундій виступає 

• підметом : Skiing is her favourite sport/Катання на лижах її улюблений вид спорту.
• додатком: She enjoys skeeing / Їй подобається катання на лижах.
• складеним присудком: One of her hobbies is skiing/Одне з її улюблених занять - кататися на лижах. 

Зміни на письмі:

• подвоєння останньої букви у односкладових дієсловах: to run - running;
• відкидання "німої" -e: to take - taking.

Список дієслів, після яких вживається герундій

admit	едміт	приймати
advise	едвайз	радити
appreciate	епрішіейт	цінувати
avoid	евойд	уникати
begin	бігін	починати
can't help	кант хелп	не втриматися
celebrate	селебрейт	святкувати
continue	контін'юе	продовжувати
consider	консідер	вважати
delay	ділей	відкладати
denay	дінай	відхиляти
discuss	діскас	обговорювати
dislike	діслайк	не подобатися
enjoy	інджой	насолоджуватися
feel like	філ лайк	почуватися
finish	фініш	закінчувати
forgive	форгів	прощати
forget	форгєт	забувати
hate	хейт	ненавидіти
imagine	імеджін	уявляти
keep	кіп	утримувати
like	лайк	подобатися
mention	меншн	згадувати
mind	майнд	бути проти
practise	пректіс	тренувати
propose	пропоуз	пропонувати
prefer	пріфьор	віддавати перевагу
recommend	рікоменд	рекомендувати
regret	рігрет	шкодувати
report	ріпорт	повідомляти
resist	різіст	протистояти
remember	рімембер	пам'ятати
stop	стоп	зупинити
suggest	седжест	пропонувати
try	трай	намагатися

Examples/Приклади:

Spring is here! / Весна пришла!

Spring is coming, my dear friends! Let's enjoy it!;)