Karaganda RURL

March 18, the AC Karaganda celebrated oriental New year Nauryz and invited English language Fellow Annah Trunick to this event to introduce her to the Kazakh culture. American corner users prepared an interesting program and also invited English language teachers and students from a local college. All information was prepared and delivered in English language that helped the AC patrons practice it. As the result, it was an interesting cross-cultural event that

The American Corner Karaganda is the place where cultures meet. Two interesting, informative, and very different celebrations were organized one after the other at the AC premises on March 17 and 18.

The St. Patrick's day celebration took place on March 17 where the coordinator used materials about the holiday sent by U.S. Embassy Astana. The information about the holiday was shared with the audience. As the result, over 40

On March 11 American corner users had another amazing opportunity to learn from Annah Trunick(ELF). She held her third workshop  named "Communicative Language Teaching". Why use games in the Educational process? Language learning is a hard work. Effort is required at every step and must be maintained over a long period of time. Games help and encourage many learners to sustain their interest and motivation. Games also

On March 04,  Annah Trunick (ELF) was a moderator of an Educational seminar "Kinesthetic Activities for Teaching Grammar in the EFL Classroom". As participants local English language teachers played a lot of games and were very active while creating "Conversation Chain Interviews", " Empty Boxes Activity".(Objective: To practice showing and not just telling in your writing). The most fun was connected with activity "Misplaced and Dangling

The American Corner Karaganda launched the Women's History Month on March 3 having organized a thematic Round table. It started with questions among over 40 participants "Are more teachers / nurses / professional musicians female or male in your country?" Afterwards, they learned about the celebration of the Women's History Month in the United States and its theme in 2013 "Women Inspiring Innovation Through imagination: celebrating Women in Science, Technology,