Congratulations!

The last issue of the newspaper “English” (#12(636), June 2014 was dedicated to wonderful contest “Taras Shevchenko In My Life”. This year is very special for Ukraine and the lines of Shevchenko’s poems are constantly in the air.

15 teachers and students from Solonyanshchyna participated in this contest. Many thanks to all of them for sharing their creative works with. They are incredible! I congratulate the winners whose essays are the most sincere, exciting, unique and advanced. Among them Olena Kondratska, a 10th form pupil, from Oleksandropil educational complex.

The best essays were published in that paper. Among them the essays by a teacher of English Tetyana Grabko (School of Solone #2, It is Me), a teacher of English Olena Shumska (School of Zhdanovo), 10^th form pupil Iryna Baraley (School of Trytuzne) and an 11^th form pupil Olena Mozul (Schoolof Yelizariv). Congratulations!

"...Swimming and writing are carefully specific learned behaviours. We learn to swim if there is a body available and usually if someoneteaches us. We learn to write if we are members of literate society and if someone teaches us. There are non-swimmers and poor swimmers and excellent swimmers, so we have the same situation with writers."

Dr. Douglas Brown