Dear friends, David Wansbrough would like to introduce you to the art of the wonderful Alyona Gromushkina. The exhibition opens on March 3 at 6.30 pm in Moscow Museum of Education (12 Vyshnyakovsky Lane, Tretyakovskaya metro). As she died recently you will now meet her only through her photographs. Although she loved people, none of […]
A bit of history Started in Sweden in 2003, World Storytelling Day is a global celebration of the art of oral storytelling. It is celebrated every year on the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, the first day of autumn equinox in the southern. On World Storytelling Day, as many people as possible tell and […]
Hear come the results of the Poetry Festival in memory of Alyona Gromushkina, MELTA vice-president, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine English. It turned into international due to active participation of students from Indonesian school in Moscow! Very talented expressive poems have been composed and performed by all the students on the following topics: 1. Remebrance. The Truly Great BY STEPHEN […]
Дорогие коллеги, друзья. 22.01.15 в 00:30 после обширного инсульта ушла от нас Алёна Владимировна Громушкина, редактор журнала «Английский язык» издательского дома «Первое сентября», вице-президент Ассоциации учителей и преподавателей английского языка Москвы и Подмосковья, мама, четырежды бабушка. Ей было всего 52 года, полна планов, энергии, любви ко всем нам и к своей семье. Эта потеря очень тяжела […]
Dear Colleagues, here's a letter from our dearest MELTA Friend Elena Lubnina. Many of you know her ardent desire and unfatiguable work to help EL teaching all over Russia. She wrote it for Thanksgiving, but there's no doubt that any present with love and care can be offered for Christmas time as well. Thank you, […]
Dear colleagues, let the wise words of this poem give you force, patience and energy to strive on and...win of course! Reach your goals and embody your most extravagant dreams! «Many happy returns Of the days to remember To make up to, to cling, To rejoice, to surrender — To the mercy of time, Days of […]
Dear MELTA members, colleagues and friends! This year MELTA is marking its 10th anniversary and I’d like to express our gratitude to all 909 MELTA members and 495 participants of MELTA FB page for physically or virtually being together. I’d like to say “thank you” to all who have supported and inspired us since the 28th of May 2004: Artyom […]
1ST MELTA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE LANGUAGE IN CULTURE AND CULTURE IN LANGUAGE Moscow, September 25-26, 2009 The Conference was jointly organized by Moscow Association of English Language Teachers, Institute for the humanities and Informational Technologies and newspaper English of the Publishing House “The First of September” 250 participants of the conference have granted their approval to […]
A Distant But Yet Such A Near Dream We grow while we are dreaming and our dreams grow with us. Some of them come true and others stay just dreams. When we become adults, we often continue dreaming just like in our childhood. I think it’s wonderful, because children's dreams are the most beautiful!!! […]
Dear Colleagues, I wanted to take a moment and thank everyone who came to my presentation on motivation and language learning and for the warm welcome to which I was treated. Presenting at MELTA was a wonderful experience. I have attached links to my presentation «Motivation & Language Learning» PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw1mkjkFmJyFVDBOZW1ubHZEV1U/view?usp=sharing «Motivation & Language Learning» PPT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw1mkjkFmJyFSHRPZDFpVGtfVlE/view?usp=sharing […]
