Picture Gallery Access Donetsk

Access News and Picture Gallery / Новости и фото программы Access:

Access News and Picture Gallery, group 3:

The Earth Day community service (April 2014).

Visit to Mother and Child Center for Women (22 February 2014). Within the project initiated by the Access students at the Access Summit in Kiev, on the 22nd of February Donetsk Access students visited the Mother and Child Center for Women which is run by Rinat Akhmetov's Foundation Development of Ukraine (http://www.fdu.org.ua/en/family/save_family). The students highlighted the importance of prevention of child abandonment, raised a question of reducing the number of orphans in our country. The students showed several presentations, role played some situations, showed their talents and thus encouraged the mothers to care for their children.

Education fair (24 January 2014, Donbass Palace). Representatives from the US and UK colleges and high schools were answering the questions about study opportunities in both countries. Access students listened to their presentations and learned about the process of applying and studying. Students had a chance to ask questions and practise their English too.

Speaking club with the volunteers from China and Brazil (December 2013)

St. Nicholas Day (19 December 2013). The students had a number of class-room activities on the topic of St. Nicholas Day. They also went to the kindergarten to conduct a holiday for the kids.

Visit of Eve Smith (24 October 2013). Eve Smith, Senior EL Fellow (US Department of State) visited Access students and played a game called “Jeopardy” with them. The English specialist Mike Martucci who is based in Donetsk helped Eve and observed the lesson.

Columbus Day (October 2013). Ten senior Access students from the 1st cohort were selected to share their knowledge about this American holiday with the new Access group (2nd cohort), did a number of quizzes with them and performed a play on this topic. Video: http://youtu.be/M2SuyAYqBzo (Linguist Prime channel)

Visit of Mike Martucci (September 2013). The English language specialist Mike Martucci visited the Access class when he observed the students and helped the teacher at the lesson. Mike's primary goal this time was to notice and correct students' pronunciation.

Intensive summer session (June 2013). The volunteer Fernando Neves from the organization called AISEC (http://aiesec.ua/ ) was invited to talk to students on general topics and share his culture. The guest showed his PPT presentation about the place where he lives and then listened to some facts about the U.S. and Ukraine. In groups students compared three cultures and wrote down the differences.