New Summer Camp Blog

One more blog for describing magnificent events in the Magic English Summer Camp!

Today...

Today there was "goodbye" party.

Cameron showed videos about what we did on the lessons...it was funny!!!I think all smiled and laughed today...

To my mind nobody was sorry about coming here.

Today it was exciting...and we should say "thank you" to all teachers...and our counselor Igor!

Last Lesson

Today is the last lesson of "English through the Internet". The schoolkids are self-assessing their work in Term 4.

Good bye

Soon there will be last I-net lesson...And we should finish all our "depts"!

So we should be serious for our marks...Good luck!

P.S in the summer there will be Summer Camp! I hope seeing everybody there!

Safe Internet Search

This computer lesson is devoted to the search engine and exploring several exciting USA government sites for kids.
Comp-lesson 10 (from our wiki)

Stories about Lessons

The teams are creating some stories about our unusual lessons.

TuxPaint Drawings

The teams were using TuxPaint for illustrating their stories.

Sparky team're choosing...

Hi,everybody!
On the lesson "English through the Internet" we have been continueing "choosing symbols of the team"...we painted different kinds of pictures,which came to us,when we heard our name of team and therefore we want to choose more suitable,which can underline the name of "us"!
To my mind,we can develop creativity...and it can help in the future!
Good bye.

Choosing Symbols

The teams will be choosing symbols of their teams.

Term 4. First Internet Lesson

The groups will be starting a new term.

Memorable Date

50 years of the first space flight of Yuri Gagarin
150 years of the Civil War (USA)

Seminar "Moving Forward..."

The teachers were present at the fascinating seminar. The guest from the USA - Senior Fellow Erik Lundell - introduced us to several remarkable techniques of teaching speaking.

Touchstone

hi,everybody!
Now I'll say something about "main" lesson,Touchstone...that is good one,we learn how we must speak,write and read English.We should know grammar,if we don't want in order of people don't understand us...
On this lesson we get useful info,for example,recently we have learnt "direction"...due to this one we can explain how to get to some places.
Speak rightly...
Good bye!

last lessons

Hello,there will be last lessons tomorrow in this term...but I don't know there will or not be Team time in Saturday.I congratulate all with end of this one and ,of course,I want all students of Access to get best marks... and I want teachers to be healthy...rest of us on vacation))))
Meet in the next term...
Goodbye!!!!!!!!

End of Term 3

The three groups summarized their activities , filling in the 'self-assessment' table. The printed page is a part of the schoolchild's portfolio.

New Blog To Revive Memory

I've created a new blog devoted to the first Summer Camp

Chat with Robot

The new groups are chatting with Egon, the Dragon Robot.

Oscar-2011

There was "Oscar" yesterday,and I think we all watch it.This ceremony was attractive...their speech,their jokes and etc. discharged that stressful "atmosphere",'cos all nominees was agitated to get the oscar or not.The show was about 4:15 am (I don't remember very well) on Monday & the repitition was in the same day,just in 10:30 p.m

If you didn't watch Oscar,you may see,who became the winners in all categories:

Best Picture:The King's Speech

Actor in a Leading Role:Colin Firth

Actor in a Supporting Role:Christian Bale

Actress in a Leading Role:Natalie Portman

Actress in a Supporting Role:Melissa Leo

Animated Feature Film:Toy Story 3

Art Direction:Alice in Wonderland

Cinematography:Inception

Costume Design:Alice in Wonderland

Directing:The King's Speech

Documentary Feature:Inside job

Documentary Short Subject:Strangers no more

Film Editing:The Social network

Foreign Language Film:In a Better world

Makeup:The wolfman

Music (Original Score):The Social network

Music (Original Song):Toy Story 3

Short Film (Animated):The Lost Thing

Short Film (Live Action):God of Love

Sound Editing:Inception

Sound Mixing:Inception

Visual Effects:Inception

Writing (Adapted Screenplay):The Social network

Writing (Original Screenplay):The King's Speech

The all info about Oscar,you can see on http://oscar.go.com/

Why Helloooooo There!

Hey everyone! My name is Cameron McGregor I am one of the Access teachers this year...but I'm a little different! I am an American! Whoo!  I here, in Elista, to help our Access students improve their English and to give them a better understanding of American culture.

But let me tell you a little bit about me! I am 25 years old and I come from Seattle (hint: click Seattle to find out exactly where it is!) in the state of Washington.  I am a student of the University of Washington in Seattle and I studied to be a teacher! I am here, in Elista, on a US Fulbright Grant, which is a US Government grant to have American citizens go abroad and teach English in places where there are very few English speakers.

What do I like to do? Well I like to try and speak Russian (I'm not very good), I like to fish and go camping, I love being by the ocean and I also love to read. I drink lots of coffee and think about food ALL the time!

Okay, well that's all for now, but you'll be hearing more from me on this blog as the year continues! I hope to see your comments!

English Through Videos

This lesson is very interesting!
We watch exciting movies in English.We discuss and share their views.
Watching such amazing films as "Mad Money","127 hours"etc.

Saturday Lessons

They are really cool. The Saturday lessons with Cameron and Marina, Igor and Tseren is liked by many Access students)

On the last lesson with them we were watching a movie "Hunters for Dragons")

Once we were playing in Mafia+Vampires)
it was such a fine occasion) I liked that lesson most of all)

Creating PowerPoint Presentations

The schoolchildren are learning how to create Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.

Contributing to Blog

The schoolchildren have been invited to contribute to the blog of our Access school.

Our first I-net lesson

This lesson was attractive,we remembered wikispaces,what we should indicate registering anywhere,what we shouldn't indicate(the rules of safety surfing).We learnt new wikispace...http://el-access-2011.wikispaces.com.Then our group became to choose between three names,i.e. how we would be named in the new wiki.First we thought of Brisk,then we wanted to be Sparky team,after this we chose Feisty,of course,we thought over long,but we came to consensus and became SPARKY team.Unfortunately,the lesson came to end and we went to another one.

First Lesson

The first group chose the name for their group at the Internet lessons. They are now Sparky Team!

New School Term Soon!

The third term is traditionally connected with the Internet lessons. There'll be new wikis for Access schoolchildren to contribute!
One of the newest wikis is this one