Kherson State University

We are pleased to announce that for the book club members who have read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 this month, the final KSU Book Club meeting this semester to discuss it will be held on Tuesday, 03.06 at 16.00.
The invitation to the zoom will be posted in the group the day before the meeting.
We invite everyone to join us!

📣Шановні здобувачі й співробітники Херсонського державного університету!

Запрошуємо Вас приєднатись до зустрічі Розмовного клубу з англійської мови цього тижня з теми “Insights into Job-hunting and Work Life” та поговорити про сучасні вимоги на ринку праці в Україні та закордоном, написання резюме англійською і проходження співбесіди та ще багато чого цікавого.

📅 Дата: 20 травня 2025, вівторок
🕒 Час: 16:00 (за київським часом)
📍 Місце: на платформі Zoom за запрошенням, яке зареєстровані учасники отримають за день до зустрічі.
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Заздалегідь до зустрічі усім зареєстрованим учасникам надійде запрошення на зустріч та нагадування із її анонсом.

Запрошуються також працівники та науковці ХДУ (цього тижня розмовні клуби будуть об'єднані в один)!

Побачимось!

📚 This Month, for our Final Book Club, we are going to read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 – a gripping novel about the power of books in a society where they are banned and burned.

🤔Why should you read it?

📍To discuss the role of literature in preserving individuality and truth at our Book Club meeting.
📍to explore themes of freedom of thought, media control, and resistance.
📍to discover how Bradbury’s 1953 novel remains hauntingly relevant today.

📖 Start reading now and be ready to dive into meaningful discussion, powerful questions, and a thought-provoking comparison to today’s world at the beginning of June.

Let’s ignite some conversation! 🔥

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Dear students and staff of Kherson State University!

We invite you to join this week's meeting of the English Speaking Club, organised in cooperation with the University of Kent (UK), on the topic ‘Global Horizons in Higher Education’ and discuss current trends in higher education, academic international mobility, virtual exchanges.

📅 Date: 13 May 2025, Tuesday
🕒 Time: 16:00 (Kyiv time)
📍 Location: on the Zoom platform by invitation, which registered participants will receive the day before the meeting.
Registration.

📍On Monday, the first free consultation on preparing for the CEE-English test took place, bringing together more than 40 soon-to-be masters and PhD students.

The participants got acquainted with general information about the CEE, the English language test programme discussed the specifics of the Reading section tasks, reviewed common mistakes, learned life hacks and immediately practised. In addition, the participants revised grammar (Noun) and vocabulary (Family, Family Relations). The meeting ended with a Q&A session.
All registered participants received useful links for the CEE preparation and access to the consultations' recordings via email.
We thank the participants for their activity!

☝️Next consultation will take place on Thursday (08 May) at 3.30 pm.
If you have not registered yet but would like to join, please fill in the form

We would like to remind you that on 2 May, the registration for the EMI and the EHEA started and will last until 23 May. Registration is carried out by the KSU Admissions Office

We invite all members of our English-speaking community to join the KSU Book Club meeting this week, on 7 May at 16.30 (Kyiv time) via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 812 6510 8632
Passcode: 063913

We will discuss the book ‘The Accidental Billionaires. The Founding of Facebook' by Ben Mezrich, as well as its adaptation The Social Network.
We invite all book lovers and movie fans to join the discussion!

Participation in the book club is free and without registration!

Dear students and staff of Kherson State University!

We invite you to join this week's meeting of the English Speaking Club, organised in cooperation with the University of Kent (UK), on the topic ‘The Path to Academic Success: Strategies for Effective Study and Exam Preparation’ and talk about taking exams, in particular in English, exam cheating, and most importantly, effective strategies for preparing for them.

📅 Date: 06 May 2025, Tuesday
🕒 Time: 4 pm (Kyiv time)
📍 Location: Zoom platform by invitation, which registered participants will receive the day before the meeting. Registration
In advance of the meeting, all registered participants will receive an invitation to the meeting and a reminder.

KSU employees are also invited (the speaking clubs will be merged into one this week)!

See you there!

📣Шановні вступники на навчання в магістратурі або аспірантурі 2025!

Протягом травня-червня Офісом іншомовної освіти Херсонського державного університету проводитимуться консультації зі складання тесту з англійської мови Єдиного Вступного Іспиту.

🗓Консультації проходитимуть по понеділках і середах з 15.30 до 17.00 дистанційно на платформі Zoom.

🧐Що на Вас чекає:
- Ознайомлення з особливостями ЄВІ-2025 та специфікою кожного з завдань із тесту з англійської мови;
- Корисні поради щодо виконання завдань, можливість одразу ж застосувати теоретичні знання, виконуючи типові завдання ЄВІ з англійської мови, та аналіз типових помилок;
- Узагальнення лексичного й граматичного матеріалу, володіння яким необхідне для успішного складання ЄВІ;
- Рубрика «Запитання–відповіді».

✍️ Взяти участь у консультаціях можуть здобувачі з будь-яким рівнем володіння англійською мовою: від початкового (рівень А1) до високого рівня (рівень В2), які попередньо зареєструвались.

📩 Детальну інформацію про консультації та запрошення з ідентифікатором і паролем конференції в Zoom всі зареєстровані учасники отримають на вказані електронні адреси заздалегідь до їх початку (орієнтовно 2-го травня).

Запрошуємо всіх охочих долучатися!

Dear students and staff of Kherson State University!

We invite you to join the English Speaking Club meeting, organised in cooperation with the University of Kent (UK), this week on the topic ‘Fashion Forward: A Talk about Trends’ and talk about the impact of trends and fashion on modern society.

📅 Date: 29 April 2025, Tuesday
🕒 Time: 4 p.m. (Kyiv time)
📍 Venue: Zoom platform by invitation, which registered participants will receive the day before the meeting.
Registration
In advance of the meeting, all registered participants will receive an invitation to the meeting and a reminder with its announcement.

KSU employees are also very welcome!

See you there!

In April 2025, 45 students successfully completed their foreign language courses at the KSU Foreign Language Education Office and about 50 people will continue their studies in April-June!

✅ Students of Intensive English Courses for students, and for HEI staff, as well as intensive German courses, have completed the relevant courses, passed intermediate and final tests and will soon receive certificates confirming this.

🎉 Congratulations to our students and we are proud of all of you!

We are pleased to invite you to join this week's English Speaking Club on ‘Why do We Need Art?’

🤔Plan:
- An ice-breaker: Show & Tell - Art Edition
- Vocabulary Builder
- Mini group discussion: Can art change the world or influence people's opinions?
- Activity: ‘Art Is Everywhere’
- Open discussion

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for students, organised in cooperation with representatives of the University of Kent (the UK), will be held on Tuesday, 21.04.25 at 16:00 (Kyiv) via Zoom.

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for staff will be held on Thursday, 24.04.25 at 16:00 (Kyiv) via Zoom.

The day before the meeting, all registered participants will receive an invitation to the meeting and a reminder with its announcement.

This week, KSU English Speaking Clubs met on the topic Everything is Not as it Seems: A talk about Fake News. The event was attended by representatives of the University of Kent (UK), students and staff of KSU!
The meeting started with a game to distinguish a real photo of a person from an AI-generated one. Then the participants shared the information resources they trust, how they check it, etc as well as learned more about deepfake and how to recognise it, recalled the most scandalous news that turned out to be ‘fiction’. In addition, the guests discussed other ways of creating and disseminating untrustworthy information, along with who benefits from it and who should be held accountable.

Dear students and staff of Kherson State University!

We invite you to join the English Speaking Club meetings this week on the topic "Everything is Not as it Seems: A talk about Fake News"

🤔What awaits you:
- An Ice-breaker: Real or Fake?
- Mini-group discussion: What are the trustworthy sources of information? Why?
- Open discussion: Should social media platforms be responsible for controlling fake news?
- Vocabulary builder: Media and Misinformation

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for Students (in cooperation with University of Kent (the UK)) - April 15 at 4 pm (Kyiv) via Zoom. Registration

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for KSU staff - April 17 at 4 pm via Zoom. Registration

After a one-time registration, you will receive an email with an invitation, a new conference ID and a passcode. A reminder with an announcement will be sent the day before the meeting.

Join us!

This week, KSU English Speaking Clubs held a meeting dedicated to technology and its impact on the learning process. Representatives of the University of Kent (UK), KSU students and staff joined the event! The participants shared their preferences in the ways and types of learning, tried to recall or guess outdated devices, and discussed modern information technology, AI, social media and their impact on our lives.

We are pleased to announce that the book we will be reading in April and will discuss it at the next KSU Book Club meeting, intertwining and expanding the topics of the following KSU Speaking Club.

So, we invite you to read a fascinating story about the friendship of Harvard students, their ambitions, betrayal and innovation - The Accidental Billionaires. The Founding of Facebook" by Ben Mezrich. Read the story in English this month, watch its film adaptation The Social Network, and join us for a discussion and exchange of impressions in early May!

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📣This and next week's English Speaking Club meetings will focus on modern information technology, AI, social media and their impact on our lives.

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for Students (in cooperation with University of Kent (the UK)) - April 8 at 4 pm (Kyiv) via Zoom. Registration

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for KSU staff -  April 10 at 4 pm via Zoom. Registration

After a one-time registration, you will receive an email with an invitation, a new conference ID and a passcode. A reminder with an announcement will be sent the day before the meeting.

Join us!

📣 This week, the KSU English Speaking Clubs and KSU Book Club met to discuss both fun and serious things.
In particular:
✅ with KSU students and representatives of the University of Kent we talked about humour and jokes;

✅ with the staff of our university, we told funny pranks that happened to them;
✅ and with the participants of the book club we shared our impressions of the beautiful, but heartbreaking and thought-provoking book by Colleen Hoover - ‘It Ends with Us’.

It was interesting and useful!
So we invite you to participate in our future English-language events!

Dear students and staff of Kherson State University!

We invite you to join the English Speaking Club meetings this week on the topic The Art of Pranks and Humour

🤔 What will we talk about?
- How Do You Feel About Pranks?
- How is April Fool's Day Celebrated in Different Countries?
- What is the funniest prank you've heard or experienced?
- Vocabulary and Idioms: Humour & Pranks

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for Students (in cooperation with University of Kent (the UK)) -  April 1 at 4 pm (Kyiv) via Zoom. Registration

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for KSU staff - April 3 at 4 pm via Zoom. Registration

After a one-time registration, you will receive an email with an invitation, a new conference ID and a passcode. A reminder with an announcement will be sent the day before the meeting.

Join us!

Dear members of our English-speaking community!

We invite you to join the KSU Book Club meeting next week, on 2 April at 4 pm (Kyiv time) on the Zoom platform via link:
https://ksu-ks-ua.zoom.us/j/81265108632?pwd=bOiVQn2cGqHOCiKjYxDbOPBzr3lkXJ.1
Meeting ID: 812 6510 8632
Passcode: 063913

We will discuss the book It Ends with Us by Colin Hoover and its film adaptation.

Participation is free and without registration!
Save the date and join us soon!

KSU English Speaking Club members continue to discuss Effective Communication: Strategies for Success. This week we focused on speeches and presentations. The participants reviewed the 3A rule, phrases typical for certain situations, talked about what they usually chat about with relatives and colleagues, and about the cultural differences in small talk. The meeting ended with a game followed by tips and useful phrases for speeches and presentations in English.

We are pleased to announce the intensive English and German language courses for April-June! 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸

We are pleased to invite everyone to take part in our 10-week foreign language courses with 30 hours of practical classes from 14/21 April 2025 to 20/27 June 2025.

For more information about each course, its content and features, please check out our services page in the course programmes.

❗️To register for the course:
1) Check out the course programmes and choose the one you want;
2) Fill in the form and choose the course you want to take;
2) Wait for a confirmation letter and further instructions in an email.

If you have any questions, please contact us at:
tel: +380668108729
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Dear students and staff of Kherson State University!

We invite you to join the English Speaking Club meetings this week on the topic of Effective Communication: Strategies for Success (Part 2)

Plan:

- Icebreaker
- Starting and keeping a conversation going (tips and common phrases)
- Role-playing formal and informal conversations in mini groups;
- Presentation skills discussion
- Summing-Up & Takeaway

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for students, organised in cooperation with representatives of the University of Kent (the UK), will be held on Tuesday 25.03.25 at 16:00 (Kyiv) via Zoom. Registration

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for staff will be held on Thursday, 27.03.25 at 16:00 (Kyiv) via Zoom. Registration

After a one-time registration, you will receive an email with an invitation, conference ID and passcode. The day before the meeting, you will receive a reminder with an announcement.

This week, KSU English Speaking Clubs held meetings dedicated to Effective Communication: Strategies for Success. The event was joined by representatives of the University of Kent (UK), KSU students and staff!

During the meeting, the participants communicated a little using only gestures, discussed the importance of non-verbal means of communication for understanding each other, the causes of misunderstanding and how to avoid it. The event ended with the peculiarities of interpreting certain gestures in different countries.

We are pleased to invite you to join the English Conversation Club next week on the topic of Effective Communication: Strategies for Success

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for Students (in cooperation with University of Kent (the UK)) - 18 March at 4 pm (Kyiv) via Zoom. Registration

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for KSU staff - 20 March at 4 pm via Zoom. Registration

After a one-time registration, you will receive an email with an invitation, a new conference ID and a passcode. A reminder with an announcement will be sent the day before the meeting.

Join us!

This week, KSU English Speaking Clubs held a meeting dedicated to the topic How does the Spring affect the world.

The event was joined by Danielle Connolly, a representative of the University of Kent (UK), KSU students and staff!

The meeting started with a game: participants pulled straws and answered some unexpected questions related to spring. Then they discussed how spring affects various aspects of life, touched upon DTS and shared life hacks on how to adapt to the time change faster and avoid the blues. The meetings ended with a cultural exchange with our guests on the peculiarities of celebrating spring.