September 1

HAPPY NEW ACADEMIC YEAR!

I hope you will manage to keep your sound minds in your sound bodies and do your best to achieve highest possible academic results during this 2008 - 09 academic year.

Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day to all of you, folks! Stand tall and be proud of your native land! Unite and don't let anybody to deprive you of your identity. It's cool to be Ukrainian!

P.S. Hello, everybody. I am back after a long break. The first issue of the HYDE PARK wall periodical will include this editorial about the historic event we are celebrating today. You can find it HERE .

HAPPY EASTER!

Christ has risen!
Indeed He has!
Happy Easter and nice vacations, everybody!

ENGLISH EXPRESS-2008

On Friday, April 11, we held a linguistic contest called ENGLISH EXPRESS in the Lycee. The teams representing each group but the fourth course traveled around the facility "calling" at 7 stations. The stations were: READING, WRITING, PUZZLE(vocabulary), LISTENING, POETS' CORNER, ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES and SPEAKING. Teachers prepared the tasks and performed the duties of the station masters. The fourth-course students assisted them.The results are the following:

The 1st PLACE was won by Grade 7-A (28 points), Group 13-E (29 points), Group 21-M (28 points) and Group 34-E (23 points).

The 2nd PLACE was won by Grade 7-C (26 points), Groups 11-E and 12-E (25 points each), Group 22-E (22 points), Group 31-M (20 points) and Group 32-E (19 points).

The 3rd PLACE was won by Grade 7-B (25 points), and Groups 23-E (21 points), 24-H (18 points), 35-H (17 points) & 33-H (16 points).

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!

The most active team members who contributed significantly to their teams' results were: DENYS GRYSHCHENKO (7-C), OKSANA SADOVENKO (21-M), MYKOLA BONDARENKO (21-M), KARINA SIZOVA (21-M) & OLHA BEDOVA (31-M).

GOOD JOB, FOLKS! WELL DONE!

I hope the ENGLISH EXPRESS contest will become a tradition in the Lycee.

Ukraine - NATO

Debates about Ukraine's potential joining the North Atlantic Treaty organization seem to cause discord among politicians. In a democratic society they are supposed to depend upon the citizens' opinion expressed through voting at free elections. by the time our country faces the alternative of joining NATO or not, our graduates will enjoy the rights of eligible voters. That is why THE HYDE PARK decided to study their attitude towards the NATO issue. The survey was conducted in March. You can see its results HERE . Three teachers were interviewed by the students. And you can read their interviews by clicking here: INTERVIEWS .

ENGLAND

Attention 1st course students! here you can find information about England as the largest part of the United Kingdom. To reach the document please click HERE .

Humanitarian Aid Project

At last I manage to publish the results of the project, main part of which (discussion) took place in January. Group 44-H was working on planning some humanitarian aid for an imaginary country devastated by every possible natural disaster. For the task itself refer to "Opportunities" Upper Intermediate coursebook, Module 8 "Global Issues", Communication Workshop. The initial discussion and the open democratic vote that followed gave this fictional territory the name: CHUKREN. In an hour three working groups presented their plans. Later, Dmytro Roy was given the working groups papers for further processing. He summarized their suggestions, and produced the paper, which can be seen by clicking HERE .