Dear friends, students, parents and colleagues! 

We invite you to the concert “Closer to the star”! Promise, you will get tremendous pleasure from the musical numbers staged by our talented students. 

See you on February 10, 2024, at 12.00.   Gymnasia 17

 

Dear students!

The teachers of the English Department cordially congratulate you on the end of the first term. Even though it's cold and wet outside, we hope you'll have a great time over the holidays. Go to the cinema, sit in a cafe, visit grandparents, invite friends to your home, read books. Or just wrap yourself in a blanket and dream while listening to a pleasant selection of autumn music, that we offer you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coYCbroyq-s 

See you on November 8th!

A brief report from our Olympiad

The first part of it is a lexical grammar test. The students of the 9th, 10th , 11th grades are on the photos.

The second part is a listening comprehension test. 

And the last, the most difficult and the most exiting part- speaking.

 

 

Attention!

We invite students of grades 9, 10 and 11 to take part in the English Language Olympiad, which will be held on October 14. The Olympiad will consist of 3 parts - a lexical and grammatical test, listening and speaking. You can learn the schedule presented below.

9.00-11.00 - lexical&grammar test classroom 301

11.30 - listening classrooms 309 (9-10 forms) , 300 (11 forms)

13.00 - speaking classrooms 300 / 301

 

Dear pupils! Glad to say you hello again! We wish you excellent marks, good mood, loyal friends & best teachers! 

On Monday, I wish I could watch T.V.,
But I have to go to school.
On Tuesday, I’d love to swim in the sea,
But I have to go to school.
On Wednesday, I’d like to ride my bike,
But I have to go to school.
On Thursday, I wish I could go for a hike,
But I have to go to school.
On Friday, I’d love to go to the zoo,
But I have to go to school.
On Saturday, there’s not a thing to do,
I wish I could go to school.

 Welcome to our Booklovers' Club!!!

We are happy to welcome you to the most cosy and interesting community of our Gymnasia! If you are keen on reading, love immersing yourself in fascinating stories and live on your favourite book's pages, then our club is the perfect place for you! We are waiting for you every second Saturday of the month at 12 pm in classroom 204! Come and tell us about your current reads and get the finest book recommendations ever!

 Congratulations to our winners!!!

We are glad to annouce the winners of the English Olympiad!

Grade 9-10:

1st place - Yulia Malets, 10 "B":

2nd place - Sofia Ratusheva, 10 "A";

3rd place - Kristina Mazurkevich, 10 "B".

Grade 11:

1st place - Arina Bereza, 11 "B";

2nd place - Yegor Pozdeev, 11 "A" and Anastasia Novitkevich, 11 "B";

3rd place - Yulia Yaskova, 11 "A".

We wish you success at the next stage of the competition!!!

The English Olympiad for grades 9-11 will be started on October 14. Hurry up to participate! Good luck!!!

 Dear students, everyone, from first-graders to graduates, we would like to congratulate you on the start of a new academic year. The new school year means new knowledge, meeting with school friends and interesting school everyday life. We want to wish you all good luck, success, victories and new improvements, strength and patience in this year. We wish the graduates successful exams, and congratulations to the first-graders on the new interesting chapter of their life "School Life".

  The Day of Knowledge! Dare, create, strive to explore new and unknown! 

After all, our strength is in our knowledge!

 Dear Students,

we are so glad to congratulate you on your successful ending of the school year! You've learned so much throughout this year but there is still a lot to discover. We wish you great holidays which will help you to recover from tiredness and be active during the next year.

We hope you will find time to enter our blog in summer. Therefore we offer you some useful links to practise English with fun.

https://wordwall.net/about/template/quiz

https://www.baamboozle.com/games

https://youglish.com/

See you in September!

With best wishes, 

The teachers of the English Department.

Mass Media

 Dear Students,
Here you can see a PowerPoint presentation about the Mass Media. Read the information and do the tasks included. We hope it will help you to better understand this topic.

English Language day!

Happy English Language day!

Do you know that …
- English Language Day is celebrated on 23 April, the date traditionally observed as both the birthday and date of death of William Shakespeare?
- About 500 years ago, between five and seven million people spoke English and almost all of them lived on the British Isles ?
- Today, up to 2 billion people speak English ?
- English is now the dominant or official language in 75 countries?
- English is not the official language in the USA ?

Watch the video about William Shakespeare and play the game:
https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories/william-shakespeare
For those who love reading plays by William Shakespeare there is a fantastic quiz to do:
https://www.britannica.com/quiz/shakespeare-and-his-plays-quiz

Have fun and celebrate English Language Day with us!
Your teachers of the English Department.

Ending of the third term!

Dear Students!

    We'd like to congratulate you on the ending of the third term! It was the longest term of the school year, and you did your best at it. We hope that you're glad about your achievements and happy with your final marks.

    Now there's a whole week to relax and restore your stamina. We hope you'll have a great time!

Regards,

The teachers of the English Department.

 ENGLISH WEEK 2022

Dear Students,

Each year in our gymnasia a unique event takes place. 

This is 'Closer to the Star' song contest.

'Closer to the Star-2022' was an incredible show. All the participants did their best performing famous songs and copying well-known singers. We are proud to have such talented students as you are! And we hope that next year this tradition won't be broken and we will meet again to see more wonderful performances and to hear more amazing songs.

Sincerely yours,

The Teachers of the English Department.