Dear students!

We hope that our party “Love will save the world“ was very successful, interesting and exciting.
Your made new friends, learnt much interesting, widen your outlook and surely improved your English.

I’d like to thank everybody for participating in this party and especially our singers: Valera Arkhipov and Angelina Padalka, our dancers Tanya Menzhulina and Sasha Suganyaev, our narrators  Nastya  Mal’kovskay, Kate Bezgina, Alex Zhyravlyov .

Let’s congratulate all of them.

And now let’s summarize our results. Who has got the greater quantity of hearts? Let’s see

• Kate Kygiy B-21, she got 8 hearts
• Oleysya Shkirman BOV-11,she got 7 hearts
• Vika  Shkirman, Vika Levchenko, Alex 

Aphanas’yev ,they got 6 hearts

Let’s congratulate them and wish great success in their study.

Happy New Year, my dear colleagues and students!

Be happy, healthy. I wish you great success in your work and study.

Merry Christmas to everybody.

 Yours sincerely L.G.

Christmas and New Year Traditions

           

  Each country has its own customs, traditions, holidays and  important days in its history. Talking about holidays in Ukraine we should talk about everybody's favorite New Year Holiday. People think that at night on New Year's Eve the old year with all its troubles leaves  us forever and the new year with all our hopes and expectations knocks at our doors.

 People decorate the Christmas tree, have New Year parties and prepare presents for their relatives and friends.

 On the eve of  January the 7 ^th  Ukrainians start celebrating Christmas. It^,s  the day of  Jesus  Christ  birthday  and it is widely celebrated all over Ukraine. People sing Christmas carols, cook a traditional  Ukrainian Christmas dish named “kutya” which all the family  eats together. Then people go to church to listen to the Christmas sermon.

   The Christmas season is the most festive time of the year in Britain and the United  States. Students at schools and colleges usually have a two weeks  vacation. Although no one knows exactly  when Jesus was born, Christians everywhere in the world celebrate his birthday on December 25.

 This day was a festival long before Christianity because ancient  people  believed this was the time when the sun God started his journey back to earth and it was a custom to give presents to each other.

  Every year the people  of  Norway give the city of  London a present. It^,s a big Christmas tree and it stands in the Trafalgar Square.

 Before Christmas, groups of  singers go from house to house. They collect money for charities and sing carols, Traditional Christmas songs.

      The children are told that Santa Claus or Father Christmas comer down the chimney during the night and fills the stockings by the fireplace with toys and sweets.

   Christmas is a family holiday. All the family usually meets for the big Christmas dinner of  turkey and pudding. The 26^th of December, Boxing Day, is an extra holiday after Christmas. It^,s the time to visit friends and relatives.

     New Year^, s day is less favourite in Britain than Christmas!

Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells

1. Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh,
Over the fields we go, laughing all the way.
Bells on bob-tails ring, making spirits bright,
What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight.

Chorus:

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
              O what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.

2. A day or two ago, I thought I'd take a ride
And soon Miss Fanny Bright  was seated by my side.
The horse was lean and lank, misfortune seemed his lot.
He got into a drifted bank - and we got upsot!

Chorus:

              Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
              O what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh

3.So now the room is bright, enjoy it while you^,re young.

Invite your friends tonight to sing this sleighing song.

Just get a bob-tailed nag and give him extra feed.

Then hitch him to an open sleigh – and crack!

You^,ll take the lead.

Chorus:

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!

    O what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh

Dear friends, my congratulations to you on the occasion of the Day of Knowledge. Great success.

Our favourite summer holidays

It's summer at last after a long year at college.
Everybody looked forward to this summer rest. Somebody will go to the sea or the river, somebody will rest at home or visit their relatives in the country. I wish you to enjoy your time very much, to become healthier, stronger, more beautiful and, of course, cleverer.
All the best.
Bye, see you on the 1st of September.

Let me give you some advice:

1. Every day read a few pages of easy English texts and retell what you read aloud. You should be able to read and retell a page in 5 minutes. With this method, you'll repeat about 200 words using different grammar patterns.

2. Listen to any spoken English on television, radio, records or cassettes.

3. Write translations from English into Russian and vice versa.

4. Try to do simultaneous translations of slow Russian speech delivered on televesion or radio.

5. Play any English games.

6. Create crossword puzzles.

7. Write down as many words from the letters of a given word as possible.

8. You can also create one word out of several words. For instance, "here" and "cat' make "teacher".

9. Work with a friend and test each other's abilities.