Winter holidays

No doubt you had a lot of fun in your winter holidays. Please, share you holidays experience.

• What was the most exciting event during your holidays?
• What did you learn to do?
• What new and interesting information did you learn?

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Enjoy this wonderful day and all your winter holidays!

Hope you will find time for the UNESCO project:

http://www.unescousa.org/#!2016-youth-multimedia-contest/c1mbp

Climate and Weather Presentation

We love our country! Welcome to Belarus in any season!

LACK OF TIME

Nowadays many students' problem is lack of time. Are you facing the same problem? Why does it happen? Are there any solutions to this problem? Please, share your ideas and advice

MULTIMEDIA COMPETITION

UNESCO 2016 Worldwide Youth 

UNESCO, the U.N. organization that brings grass roots initiatives in Education, Science, and Culture, invites youth around the world to take part in this year’s Multimedia Competition.  The natural optimism and unparalleled connectivity put youth one of the greatest positions to bring much needed change to the world. UNESCO’s mission is to mobilize youth to purposefully use their talents to serve others now,  ensuring even greater impact on the future to come.

• Participants: Juniors - ages 10-14;  Youth - ages 15-19; and Young Adult - ages 20-24
• Product: A 3-minute video, multimedia presentation, 500-700 written essay, art work or any method that channels a specific passion that answers the prompt
• Dates: The contest starts Nov. 16, 2015 and the final deadline is Jan. 16, 2016. Judging will take place between Jan. 17 and Feb. 17, and final winners will be announced Feb. 18.
• Prompt: Choose one of the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals and develop your solution to accomplish this aim. Click any goal above for details on each goal.  Entrants should respond by making a 3-minute multimedia production, 500-700 word written essay, art work or any method that channels a specific passion in answering the prompt.

See further information at: http://www.unescousa.org/#!2016-youth-multimedia-contest/c1mbp 

Problems of a big city

What are major environmental issues in big cities? Please, share your opinion. Before you write, read the comments of other students, try to comment on them and add a new idea!!!

You could express your own ideas or surf the net or use the links below:

http://thegrio.com/2010/04/22/the-top-ten-environmental-issues-affecting-america/#earth-day-at-40-top-ten-environmental-threats-to-black-americajpg

http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/name-describe-four-major-environmental-issues-473361

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/urban-threats2/

RECYCLING

Share your answers to the following questions. Perhaps, you will need to do some investigation .

• Are there any recycling schemes in Minsk/Belarus?
• Do you think recycling is important? Why?
• How do you deal with rubbish in your family? Give as many examples as possible.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

How are you? Hope you are enjoying your autumn holidays and getting ready for new achievements!

We are starting with Click On Student's Book so bring it for the first lesson on November 2nd.

Don't forget about your composition on the topic "Friends". Write about 20 sentences. Cover the following subtopics:

• The best friend is a unique and special person for everyone. Do you agree with the statement?
• Describe your best friend: appearance, personality, hobbies and interests, what you have in common, how you spend time together, why you value your friendship.

Dedication to Mother

October 14th is Mother's Day in Belarus. What words would you like to dediacte to your mother?

Project "My leisure centre"

Our most artiscic presenters - Ivan Shimanski and Alex Klevitov!