New Features for English Club blog

On the English Club blog you will now be able to find extra content in the English language, so keep checking back for more interesting posts in video, music and articles!

Christmas exhibition

From today, until January, the exhibition about Christmas is opened. Alberto, Annabel, Hannah and I prepared some posters about Christmas in our country, in our families.. What is the decoration ? What are the traditions ? What do we eat for this event ? How is the new year ? If you want to know how spend Christmas in Germany, Spain, Wales, Australia or France, go to have a look in the hall of the public library of Rychnov nad Kneznou !

Have fun :) !

What are we doing during the weekend ?

Good question !

In fact, since we are in Czech Republic, we didn't stay alot of weekend in Rychnov because we are very curious and we want to discover a lot of regions, cities, countries...

So, here it's a little summary of our visits :

- Rakovice (a village in the south of Bohemia, at 1 hour in bus from Prague) where we made a "tamdjem project". Let's me explain : it's an organisation which propose to the persons who live in Czech Republic a volontary work. For example, this weekend, we were in a little castle and we had to prepare the castle for the winter, so we cut wood, we did some gardening and others stuff...

It was a good weekend but very exhausted, we learned how to cut the wood, it was very funny and we met others persons again...

- Brno : one weekend in Brno

We wanted to discover the secondbiggest city of Czech Republic and oberved the difference

with Prague. It was a very nice weekend where we met again the others volunteers. And, we had the feeling that Brno is a city which mix modern and old architecture but it seems to be a very young and cultural city !

- Krakow : one short weekend in Krakow with a car.. Very difficult to find the good way.. but we arrived in the good place !

We discovered a new country, with a new language and a new money again. It was very nice. The city was so beautiful, and there was so much things to see. We didn't have enough time to see all the monuments but we visited the old city and the castle. To je hezky !

We found another OKO in Plzem !!!!!!!!!! Amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!

English Club 2011

English Club 2011

Hello! Let me introduce myself, my name is Annabel and I am 22 years old. I have just arrived here at OKO and I will be taking over the English Club for 2011/2012. My first week has been very interesting and I'm looking forward to getting to know the participants over the coming months.

I really hope to make English Club a fun and positive experience for everyone, and if you have any ideas for activities you would like to try please let me know, (for example: reading a from an English newspaper or magazine and discussing the articles). You can contact me anytime via email from the blog.

Halloween

On the 31st of October and the 1st of November was ourer next expetion on the topic Halloween.

The poster tell the history of halloween and explain the tradition of trick or threat and what you do on a halloween party.

The poster will still be hanging their till end of november in the hall of the libary of Rychnov nad Kneznou if you whant to have a look :)

As well we made a flyer with a horror story at the back and a cross word puzzel about the symbols of Halloween at the front.






This time we only had two activities because on monday only Alberto and Hannah where there.

The first was a game with a witch. The task was to put the hat on the witch with a blind fold on and the other children had to help by saying up,down,right or left in english.

For the older children their was also a quiz about the information on the posters to test if they had a good look at them.










The second activity was to draw a monster.

You had to pick a piece of paper from a pile that told you what you had to draw on the monster like three eyes or two heads.

Many funny monsters were drawn.