Kherson State University

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

📣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!

Monday, April 28, 2025

Fashion Forward: A Talk about Trends

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!

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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!

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Why do We Need Art?

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.

Thursday, April 17, 2025

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.

Friday, April 11, 2025

All is Not as it Seems: A talk about Fake News

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!

Thursday, April 10, 2025

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.

Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Book of April

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!

E-book

Saturday, April 05, 2025

📣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!

Friday, April 04, 2025

📣 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!

Monday, March 31, 2025

The Art of Pranks and Humour

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!

Friday, March 28, 2025

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!

Thursday, March 27, 2025

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.

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

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
emails: o or

Friday, March 21, 2025

Effective Communication: Strategies for Success (Part 2)

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.

Thursday, March 20, 2025

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.

Friday, March 14, 2025

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!

Friday, March 14, 2025

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.

Saturday, March 08, 2025

Book of the Month

We are happy to announce that the book that we are going to read during March and discuss at the next KSU Book Club meeting is a novel about a strong and brave woman and from the #1 New York Times bestselling female author Colleen Hoover - “It Ends with Us”.

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true…

An honest, evocative, and tender novel, It Ends with Us is a glorious and touching read, a forever keeper.

☝️So, don’t waste your time and start reading right now and right here .

📍Read the story during this month and/or watch its famous film adaptation and join the meeting at the beginning of April to discuss it and share your impressions.

Stay safe and see you soon!

Friday, March 07, 2025

How does the Spring affect the world?

We are pleased to invite you to join this week's KSU Speaking Club meeting on the topic How does the Spring affect the world?

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for Students, organised in cooperation with representatives of the University of Kent (the UK), - 11 March 25 at 4 pm (Kyiv) via Zoom. Registration

✔️KSU English Speaking Club for KSU Staff  - 13 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. The day before the meeting, you will receive a reminder with an announcement.

Friday, March 07, 2025

This week, KSU English Book Club met to discuss the detective story The Incredible Theft by Agatha Christie.

✔️ The participants shared their impressions of the book, discussed the plot and its red herrings, as well as the themes covered in the novel.
✔️ We talked about the writing style and legacy of the famous writer.
✔️ And, of course, we described and compared the approach of the detective Poirot.

Friday, March 07, 2025

On 25 February and 4 March, KSU Speaking Club🗣 meetings dedicated to the cultural diversity of student communities took place.
📍The events were held within the framework of cooperation with the University of Kent and on the occasion of WorldFest 2025

KSU students together with representatives of the University of Kent - Danielle Connolly, Hayley Snoding, and international students:
✔️ shared the most important features of their own cultures and traditions,
✔️ worked in mini-groups discussing the main national holidays, dishes and family customs,
✔️ told about the most prominent people of their countries, writers and, on the occasion of International Women's Day, the contributions of outstanding women to social development.

During the meetings, everyone was able to learn something new about their own and other cultures, be inspired by great examples of resilient, ambitious and talented people and realise the importance of cultural diversity in the globalised, yet multicultural world!

Thank you all for joining us! Till next week!

Monday, March 03, 2025

The Foreign Language Education Office of Kherson State University informs about English and German language courses.

Friday, February 28, 2025

В Офісі іншомовної освіти ХДУ у цьому семестрі близько 60 осіб проходять іншомовні курси!

Заняття розпочались із:
- Інтенсивних курсів англійської та німецької для здобувачів вищої освіти;
- Інтенсивних курсів англійської та німецької для співробітників ЗВО і НПП (30 год., 10 тижнів);
- Курсу «Підготовка до тесту з англійської ЄВІ-2025 для вступників до магістратури й аспірантури»;
- Курсу «Підготовка до складання іспиту з англійської професійного спрямування для здобувачів медичних спеціальностей» (60 год., 20 тижнів).

📍Навчання відбувається в онлайн форматі із застосуванням інноваційних навчальних технологій, моніторингом успішності слухачів та з можливістю підвищення здобутого раніше рівня мовної підготовки.

📍Групи сформовані за рівнями знань від початкового (рівень А1) до високого (рівень В2) та з урахуванням побажань розкладу занять (ранкові, денні або вечірні).

📍По завершенню навчання слухачі отримують сертифікати про проходження курсів.

Бажаємо успіхів нашим слухачам!

Saturday, February 22, 2025

📣Join our KSU English Speaking Club for Students on the 25th of February!
The event is held within the WorldFest 2025 at the University of Kent, a vibrant celebration of cultural diversity from 24 February to 7 March!

Topic: Unity in Diversity

🤔 We propose you together with the international students and staff members from the University of Kent🇬🇧 to explore the richness of cultural diversity, share your own experiences and stories of your cultural heritage, and in a supportive and friendly environment learn more about customs, language and traditions of different countries.

🕔The meeting of the KSU English Speaking Club for Students in collaboration with the University of Kent will be held on 25th February at 4:00 p.m. (Kyiv time) via Zoom.

☝️ Registered participants will receive an announcement and invitation with a link the day before the meeting.
If you are new and would like to join, register here

We look forward to seeing you!

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

This week, the second meeting of KSU English Speaking Club for students took place, dedicated to Work-life Balance.
The event was joined by Danielle Connolly, a representative of the University of Kent (UK), and students from different KSU faculties!

✔️ During the meeting, we talked about the participants' workload, their well-being, hustle culture and digital detox.
✔️ The mini-groups tried to identify 5 tips for maintaining balance.
✔️ We shared our personal experience of effective strategies for managing time and reducing stress.
✔️ And we even promised each other to do one small action every day for the next week to improve our work-life balance.
So the time was spent with great benefit.

Thank you all for your participation!

Saturday, February 15, 2025

📢 Join Our Next KSU English Speaking Club Meeting! 🌿

📍Topic: Cultivating Balance in a Busy World
🗓 Date: 18th February for Students
20th February for Workers
⏰ Time: 16:00 (Kyiv time)
📍 Location: Online on Zoom via invitation that registered participants will receive the day before the meeting.

✨ What to expect:
💬 Engaging discussions on finding balance in a fast-paced world;
🤝 A fun pair/group activity to practice real-life conversations;
🎯 Practical tips to manage time, set boundaries, and avoid burnout.

Don’t miss out! Improve your English skills and learn how to create a more balanced life.

✔️Registration for Students

✔️Registration for University Workers and Academic Staff

Thursday, February 13, 2025

The first meeting of KSU English Speaking Club for Students took place this semester

🤝We talked about the holidays, their memorable moments and new activities; about time, its lack and excess in different periods of student life; as well as about plans for the future. We thank our regular and new participants for their participation.

☝️ We would like to remind you that KSU Speaking Club for academic staff and employees will be held today at 16.00. Zoom invitations have already been sent.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

We are happy to announce that the book that we are going to read during February and discuss at the next KSU Book Club meeting is a short detective story  "The Incredible Theft" by Agatha Christie.

You’re probably familiar with Agatha Christie, even if you’ve never read any of her work. She’s been deemed “The Queen of Mystery” in honour of her prolific career as a mystery writer, which spanned fifty-five long years. In fact, Christie is the most widely published author of all time, after Shakespeare and the bible.

So we propose you to try one of her most famous works in English, which you can find here.

📍Read the story during this month and join the meeting on the first Wednesday in March to discuss it and share your impressions.

Stay safe, and see you soon!

Thursday, February 06, 2025

The first meeting of KSU English Book Club this year

✔️ Participants shared their impressions of reading a book in English, discussed the plot, main characters and themes covered in the work.

✔️ They also discussed the moral lessons that can be drawn from the story's events for the modern world.

It was a pleasure to meet true fans of classic English literature. We thank everyone who joined us!