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Today was the great day. We woke up at 8.00 a.m. with energetic music on the radio. After like always we had a warm up with Keaton and Vlad. After we cleaned up our room and prepared to breakfast, but before breakfast we had tribe time where we did tounge twister battles. Читать далее…

Also today we had swimming pool and it was really funny and I felt summer and something more, something important I felt that we становимся очень сплочённой team. And in craftshop we did wood burning. TPL English staff were amazing, they made a little perfomance with fingers. In the second tribe time we played different games on trust and teambuilding. And in the evening we had a great event MMC SOCIAL ADVERTISMENT AWARDS. We showed our prepared social advertisment about happy childhood. We tried to tell that sometimes parents need to be more attentive and respectful to kids. Every member of our team was participant and I think we did a great job.I really liked it, it was amazing with special MMC’s атмосфера. Everyone was dresed in amazing costumes and dresses. I was happy to take a photo with my friends and discuss the social advertisments that we watched. I love MMC for cool moments that happens here. Thank you!

Ann Chudakova, Moscow, 14 y.o.

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The world of English
Last two days we were living in a theme of feelings and emotions. It means that we were talking a lot about it in different aspects. We learnt new beautiful words like “to cherish” (любить, лелеять, приголубить) and “to enchant” (очаровывать), two new sayings and two new tongue twisters which affects the vocabulary and pronunciation, as we do it every day. We pay a lot of attention to organization of a lexical field for participants through the lessons, activities, conversations, films, evening events, stations at option. The surroundings play an important role in learning. That’s why we use it in all possible ways to create the resources to learn new words and use them. That’s why even the kids who did not learn English for a long time start speaking the language while and after being here.

We try to design the one topic of the day for all what is happening during the day. But also we interweave a social context. For example, our yesterday evening event was social advertisements which the children were filming and preparing for three last days. This is, personally, my favorite part of our work, because this is what we (teachers) call the “freer practice”. I will explain it. When participants need to show a video to the audience it includes a number of skills and abilities. For example, creating the idea (discussion in English, including skills of agreeing, disagreeing, expressing personal opinion, critical thinking and teamwork). Then, filming (discussing the ideas, agreeing, disagreeing, expressing personal opinion, critical thinking, teamwork, acting and expressing emotions that will affect the audience). In English, of course, it goes without saying. All these speaking skills are tested during the exams. And we do the same at our lessons; we work on drilling and training speaking skills, we learn and work out the phrases of agreeing/disagreeing, expressing personal opinion, which involves critical thinking. So, after the lessons people are ready for discussions, they know the way to do it and possess the needed vocabulary. And they practice it in real life when they, for example, need to come up with the ideas to create a video. The circle closed.

They use the given material in real situation. And it’s only one example of what we are doing here from the part of the staff. Our work can be like “hidden” but always carefully planned to create the perfect situation for the development of our kids, and not only in the field of foreign language. I truly believe that MMC is the right place to learn to communicate. And we just do it in English, not in Russian.

Maria Shtern, the headteacher in MMC.

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