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Dear English Language teachers, MELTA members! Happy coming Teachers' Day! You will ask why such a strange picture on this day. It shows autumn — alright. Most importantly it shows what we have prepared to give as a gift to every our student — right guess- A FISHING ROD for our little and not very little boys […]
A LUCKY SNOWMAN Last Christmas the snow was falling on the ground so soft and white. Children made a beautiful snowman. Its eyes were made from black round buttons and its nose was made from a carrot. There was a nice red scarf all around its neck. It was wearing an old grandpa’s hat. At […]
BLOB FISH FAIRY TALES Once there lived a Blobfish deep in the Atlantic Ocean. She happened to be terribly ugly. In her childhood, nobody wanted to play with her. But her great-aunt Barracuda Agnes used to say: “It doesn’t matter how you look, if you are honest, clever and you have a kind heart”. The […]
A TALE OF TWO FRIENDS Once upon a time, there were two friends. Their names were Alan and Charlie. Charlie had a good fortune and did not have to do much in life to be happy. Alan did not have too much luck, but he always studied very hard, even at weekends. Charlie was so […]
MY BIRTHDAY WISH It was on a nice summer day, on the sixth of June 2013. Our whole family went to our summerhouse in the countryside. The weather was hot as the sun was shining brightly. The birds were singing cheerfully and the butterflies were flying all over our beautiful roses, violets and tulips. That […]
What is «storytelling»? Telling stories, of course! In 2014, there are so many diverse, wonderful, and sometimes overwhelming ways to do this. What I want to explore is traditional, oral storytelling, which has been a part of human life since we first left Africa 200,000 or more years ago. Perhaps storytelling was the reason language […]
Talented schoolboy and treble singer, Tom Deazley aged 14 from Belfast, will travel to Moscow in August for his role as ‘Miles’ in Benjamin Britten’s opera, The Turn of The Screw, which will be performed at The Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow. http://ukrussia2014.ru/event/the-turn-of-the-screw-benjamin-britten/ This much-loved opera will be produced by Northern Ireland Opera and […]
Приезд президента Британской национальной Ассоциации грамотности, одного из крупнейших мировых ученых-лингвистов, профессора и консультанта шекспировского театра «Глобус», Дэвида Кристала в Россию в начале июня вызвал огромный интерес: лекции профессора посетило 1700 человек и более 600 человек посмотрели онлайн трансляции. Мы записали несколько видео интервью с ученым и с удовольствием делимся ими с вами: — Интервью […]
18 августа 2014 года открывается программа Подготовки к Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT) Квалификационный экзамен для преподавателей английского языка Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT) состоит из отдельных модулей. Вы можете сдавать все модули или только те из них, которые максимально отвечают вашим потребностям. За каждый сданный модуль вы получаете отдельный сертификат. Модуль 1 – Методика преподавания иностранного языка; Модуль 2 – Планирование занятий в преподавании […]
18 июля 2014 в 19-00 в Образовательном центре «Гараж» директор Эдинбургского международного театрального фестиваля Джонатан Миллс в публичном интервью театральному обозревателю Елене Ковальской расскажет, чем уникален Эдинбургский фестиваль, как финансируются подобные масштабные события, и формируется программа, объединяющая мировых звезд и новые имена. Организаторами Эдинбургского фестиваля, основанного в 1947 году, выступают городской совет Эдинбурга и Шотландский совет искусств. Фестиваль занесен […]
