September 1 has an icon- ic cultural status in Ukraine. It means the beginning of the new school year, which is so important for the begin-ners especially. The foot-paths of Ukrainian towns come alive with a sea of flowers. The bouquets are being carried by little boys and girls dressed in their Sunday best, ac-companied by parents, delighted with the new life beginning. The first day back at school after summer holidays in Ukraine is officially des-ignated as The Day of Knowledge.

But not only school-children are involved into its celebration – the students are too. And the teachers – they are the ones who will get that sea of flowers and sea of love from the youngsters.

Knowledge is worth celebrating. We live in a far more com-plex world now and most jobs today require a much higher level of in-tellectual skills than ever before. Those intellectual

skills are being gained in taking knowledge from teachers and books. Thus the profession of teacher is of great im-portance nowadays.

In many countries, Teachers' Days are intended to be special days for the appreciation of teachers for their ti-tanic work.

World Teacher’s Day is celebrated across the world on October 5. It commemorates the anniversary of the 1966 signature of the UNESCO/ILO Recom-mendation Concerning the Status of Teachers.

However the idea of celebrating Teacher's Day took ground inde-pendently in many coun-tries during the 20th cen-

tury. In most cases, they celebrate a local educator or an important mile-stone in education (for example, Argentina cele-brates Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s death on September 11 since 1915, while India celebrates Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrish-nan’s birthday on Sep-tember 5 since 1962.

National Teacher’s Day in the USA is on Tuesday during Teacher Appreciation Week, which takes place in the first full week of May (May 3, 2011).

These are some na-tional ideas of celebrating Teacher’s Day in dif-ferent coun-tries:

Albania – March, 7; Algeria – February, 28; China – September, 10; Czech Republic – March, 28; Ecuador – April, 13; Poland – October, 14; Spain – January, 29; Turkey – November, 24.

Our University Teachers are worth hon-ouring we give them on the second Sunday of October. We thank them for knowledge they pass to us. We wish them all the best in their lives and career. Vivat Academ-ia! Vivant, Profes-sores!

Our opening

Germany

2

European Day of Lan-guages

4

International Translation Day

5

I am a stu-dent!

6

Halloween 7

To the sci-ence with a smile

8

Talent Dew-drops

11

At this issue:

NOTA BENE! World Teacher’s Day

is celebrated in the world on October, 5

European Day of Lan-guages comes on Sep-tember, 26

I n t e r n a t i o n a l Translation Day is celebrated every year on Septem-ber, 30

Foreign Languages Department of Volodymyr Dahl East-Ukrainian National University

BACK AT SCHOOLBACK AT SCHOOL

OUR OPENING GERMANYOUR OPENING GERMANYOUR OPENING GERMANY

On 21 – 24 of July the Uni-

versity of Kassel in Germany held

the International conference

―Everyday Life.

Social Control.

Ethnography‖.

This conference

was mainly de-

voted to the

problems of

symbolic inter-

actionism and

their develop-

ment in various

fields of sci-

ence. Promi-

nent social sci-

entists having a

world reputa-

tion, including

the delegation

of 15 participants from Ukraine

came here. Our University’s lec-

turers and students also partici-

pated in this event.

At the conference we had an

opportunity to listen

to reports on burning

present day topics

from the problem of

coffee breaks effect on

human life to the issue

of symbolic interac-

tionism as a system.

The arguments of Ken

Plummer, a famous

English sociologist,

concerning the use of

pragmatic imagination in our

everyday life were original and

convincing. We were really im-

pressed by his speech, manners

and interests.

In 2007 Ken Plummer was

operated on but after a transplant

he remains hard-working and

enthusiastic and we are proud to

have met him.

It is interesting to note that

the conference

took place not

only in live

mode but also

"online".

Thomas Sheff,

a former presi-

dent of the Pa-

cific Sociologi-

cal Association

delivered his

speech with the

help of Skype.

In the infor-

mal atmos-

phere of a bar-

becue party or a

banquet we could establish con-

tacts both with foreign students

and professors (John M. John-

son, Joseph A. Kotarba, Ken

Plummer, Michel Dewling and

others).

In general, taking part

in this conference we

gained a wide experience

and knowledge, got posi-

tive emotions, visited a

unique range of historical

sights and made new

friends from different

states and continents

whom we hope to meet in

the nearest future.

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Alma Mater

Kassel is one of the most beauti-

ful cities which we have ever visit-

ed. Nowhere else in Germany are

so many museums, palaces and

monuments located in one place.

Kassel’s Bergpark is Europe’s big-

gest hillside park where visitors

can enjoy the ornamental water

landscapes which flow down from

the Hercules monument. I think it

is also a birthplace of the German

Fairy Tale Trail.

When we received a confir-

mation letter to the confer-

ence in Kassel we were pretty

delighted. We were going to

visit Germany! In our opinion

this country was the world’s

capital of punctuality and

pedantry. We truly believed

that crossing a street on red

light or being late was impos-

sible for the Germans.

So, with all those stereo-

types we came to Kassel. We

understood how wrong we

were from the first minute of

being there. None of our pre-

dictions turned out to be true.

Kassel is a typical Europe-

an town where streets are

clean, houses (except the

downtown) are all five-storied

and public transport comes

always in time, according to

the schedule.

What shocked us most of

all was the absolute calmness

and slowliness. During all the

period of our stay there we

hadn’t seen anyone in a hur-

ry. Tranquility is the way of

Kassel’s life.

University of Kassel, where

our conference took place, is

impressive and huge. While

walking through the campus

you can find a lot of study

buildings, canteens, a library,

book shops, sports facilities

and the whole territory itself

is full of students’ art works.

If you stand for a while you

will see an old ivy-bush which

twines around the walls and

students discuss ing the ir

problems sitting on the grass

nearby.

We cannot but mention

the whole atmosphere of the

conference to be absolutely

easy-going. You could ask

your question to any profes-

sor at ease. Moreover, during

the conference every evening

we had different events where

we could communicate, ex-

c h an g e i d e a s an d m a k e

friends with all participants

including professors whose

lectures we listened to with

great pleasure. But for us

the most fascinating thing

was to be an eyewitness of a

fierce dispute between world

famous professors. Although

they often didn’t come to any

consensus, their debates

made it possible for every-

body to pick up a lot of ideas.

O n e p h i l o s o p h e r s a i d :

―thought thrives on conflict‖

and he knew what he was

saying!

On the one hand this

trip helped us to enlarge our

knowledge of sociology and

to make some useful ac-

quaintances, one the other

hand it gave us a great op-

portunity to open the eyes on

Germany – great, stable and

hasteless.

Sychevskyi Victor MK-581,

Yakovenko Oleksandra,

MT-271

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Alma Mater

Issue №5, September-October 2011 Page 4

The World’s Newsfax

September, 26 is the

European Day of Lan-

guages , as proclaimed by

the Council of Europe on

the 6 t h of December 2001,

at the end of the European

Year of Languages (2001),

which had been jointly or-

ganised by the Council of

Europe and the European

Union.

(the emblem of the holiday)

Its aim is to encourage

language learning across

Europe.

The general objectives of

the European Day of Lan-

guages are to:

alert the public to the im-

portance of language learning

and diversify the range of

languages learned in order to

increase multilingualism and

intercultural understanding;

promote the rich linguistic

and cultural diversity of Eu-

rope;

encourage lifelong lan-

guage learning in and out of

school.

There are about 225 indig-

enous languages in Europe –

roughly 3% of the world's to-

tal. Since the end of the 18 th

century, the most widespread

language of Europe has been

Russian, which replaced

French. Counting only native

speakers, approximately 150

million Europeans speak

Russian on a daily basis, fol-

lowed by German (approx. 95

mil.), English and French

(each by 65 mil.), Italian (60

mil.), Spanish and Polish (40

mil. each), Ukrainian (30

mil.), Romanian (26 mil.) As

far as foreign language stud-

ies are concerned, English is

currently the most popular

foreign language in Europe.

According to the European

Union survey "Europeans and

their Languages" 56% of EU

citizens speak a language

other than their mother

tongue. Among EU citizens,

38% indicate that they know

English, followed by 14%

mastering French or German,

7% Russian, 5% Spanish

and 3% Italian. The typical

multilingual European is a

student or he/she holds a

managerial position.

The European Union ad-

heres to a policy of multi-

lingualism. At the 2002 EU

summit in Barcelona, it set

a target for children to

learn at least two foreign

languages from an early

age. Multilingualism for the

EU is linked to worker mo-

bility and the European

economy. The European

Union spends more than

€30 million a year promot-

ing language learning.

Issue №5, September-October 2011 Page 5

The World’s Newsfax

International Transla-

tion Day is celebrated

every year on the 30 t h of

September on the feast of

St. Jerome (Ієронім), the

Bible translator who is

considered as the Patron

Saint of translators.

He was one from four

Fathers of Latin Church.

He liked travelling and

learning new things. Je-

rome lived for some years

in the Hulked Dessert

where he studied new lan-

guages. Then he moved to

Bethlehem and devoted all

his rest life to translating

the Bible. Eleven centuries

later the Church recog-

nized his translation as

the official Latin text of

the Bible.

The celebrations of

International Transla-

tion Day have been pro-

moted by FIT (the Interna-

tional Federation of Trans-

lators) ever since it was

set up in 1953.

In 1991 the Interna-

tional Federation of

Translators launched the

idea of an officially recog-

nized International

Translation Day to

show solidarity of the

worldwide translation

community in an effort to

promote the translation

profession in different

countries (not necessarily

only in Christian ones).

This is an opportunity

to display the real pride in

a profession that is becom-

ing increasingly essential

in the era of progressing

globalization!

St. Jerome in his study. A painting by Domenico

Ghirlandaio.

That’s it

– I am a

student! Me

a student? I

can’t be-

lieve it even

today after

some weeks

of studying.

I won’t for-

get the feelings I felt when

going to that. As soon as the

school final exams came to

an end, another wave of ex-

citement threw me in agony

– a great desire to enter the

specialty I have

dreamt about.

I can’t say Edi-

tion and Publishing

was my first choice.

My career-looking

history began in the

9th Form, when I – a

musical school gradu-

ate – began to dream

about the career of a

musician. They were

my parents who ex-

plained me the diffi-

culty of the way of

musician in our coun-

try. So, I paid attention to

my mathematical abilities

and thought of a career of an

accountant. But while I was

trying to understand the life

sense and my place in it, I

was making some notes in

my diary, I was writing po-

ems and stories. One day I

showed them to my friend

and she advised me to take

part at the competition and I

wrote my first serious liter-

ary work. That was the initial

point of my dream of the ca-

reer of an editor.

I remember the fear of

unknown world I felt when I

came into this University for

the first time! It was a teach-

er of sociology who met me

in corridor and spoke to me

with the warmth I hadn’t felt

at school. I felt a bit more

confident and gave my docu-

ments to the commission.

Then the long-long

waiting began. Waiting for

seeing or not my name in the

list of students. I came to the

University every day to see

the situation on the board

for applicants. That was the

most exciting summer in my

life! But when the day of re-

sults came I felt fear to know

the truth. I couldn’t make

myself just go to the Univer-

sity and read the list. But I

had to and what happiness I

felt when I saw my name in

the list of students! I felt the

wings behind my back, I felt

the God on the Earth!

Euphoria, phone calls to

the relatives with the word

―student‖ spoken in

different tones: ―Me a

student! Me a student?

Me a student…‖ Oh, my

God, me a student!

Feeling of miracle that

has come true – it is

flying away now. Study-

ing rhythm, new tasks

and difficulties, large

homeworks (by the

word, much larger than

at school) shadowed

that feeling of happi-

ness from becoming a

student. But I am sure,

we should remember it in or-

der we believed that the

dreams may come true!

Nastya Volkova,

MK - 211

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Opinion

Page 7 DAHL’S HORIZON

Society

October, 31 the world is going to celebrate one of the most mysterious Brit-ish holidays Halloween.

Halloween is more than 2.000 years old. It originates from Celtic cul-ture. The Celts had specif-ic holidays that marked the beginning of every season. These dates were called ―sreches‖ and they were as follows: February, 2 – the Day of spring or Imbolc, April, 30 – the summer holiday of Beltane, July, 31 – the Day of autumn or Lammas and October, 31 – the winter hol-iday of Samhein.

The Celts began a new year in winter, so the holiday of Sam-hein was the most important. Samhein was associated with death. People today are afraid of death, but in old time death con-sidered a coming back to nature, so it was celebrated with joy. People said that if winter (or death) doesn’t throw old leaves from the trees, new leaves wouldn’t be able to grow in spring. So they worshipped the souls of the dead with plates of fruit or vegetables left around houses in order the spirits of the dead ones protected living peo-ple.

The last fool moon before Samhein was called the Hunter’s Moon. It was consid-ered to be the gate to other world – the Heaven’s or the Hell’s one. Any creature – good or bad – could come into human world through the surface of a mirror or a water object and tell people their fate.

Hunter’s Moon gave chil-dren a custom to take images of spirits through putting on differ-ent masquerade costumes.

They vis-ited hous-

es and cried

―trick-or-treat” –

“угости, а то напакощу!‖

People gave them money, fruit and sweets.

In the 1st century the Romans came to Britain and brought both their pagan and Christian tradi-tions. On October, 31 they wor-shipped the Goddess of plants Pomona. Her symbol was an ap-ple. Apple became the central object at Samhein holiday. Boys play games with apple, girls try to guess their fortune on the apple.

Christianity tried to overcome pagan traditions of the Bretons, so Pope Boniphaziy IV ordered to worship all the Hallows on No-vember, 1 in order to distract people from their pagan tradi-tions. That was called All Hallow’s Eve and some time later people used to call the holiday Halloween instead of Samhein or Hunter’s Moon, but it didn’t change the idea of merry mas-querade and joking on that day.

Another ritual of celebrat-ing this holiday added due to Christianity – making Jack-o-lanterns (Джека с фонарем). It

was firstly made from an emptied turnip or beet with cut eyes and mouth in it and with a burning candle inside. It symbolized everburning soul of a sinful drunkmen Jack. However, the mood of joy, the Church couldn’t over-come, transformed the reli-gious idea to the idea of de-ceiving the Devil who after some tricks of Jack exiled him from the Hell. In order Jack wouldn’t come to hell

again, he gave him some fire which was put into the emptied turnip and Jack was got free from the hell. The God refused take his sinful soul too, so Jack-o-lanterns moves in the uni-verse and comes to his homeland on the day of Samhein .

When many British migrated to America, they found a new can-didate for making Jack-o-lanterns there – the pumpkin. In the 18th century pumpkins were brought to Britain and they became a symbol of Halloween .

Halloween becomes more and more popular bringing much joy and mess into the towns and villag-es. It is criticized by Christianity as the worshipping of Devil. You are to create your own attitude to this holi-day. As for me, I like it very much!

Zavarika Kateryna, 11th Form, Luhansk Small

Academy of Science of School Youth

We, the threesome from the Section of Jour-nalism of Lugansk Small Academy of Science of School Youth, were invited to the lesson of the first-year listeners of the Eng-lish Section of our Acade-my just on the Eve of the International Day of Smile .

They, who don’t know what Small Academy of Sci-ence of School Youth is, should learn that it’s the af-ter-school institution where the future scientific elite is growing. Pupils of the 9 th – 11 th Forms come here after school to master one from about 50 branches of mod-

ern science and to gain some practice in scientific work through examining a chosen topic and taking part in scientific conferences and competitions.

So, we, whose Section studies at Taras Shevchenko National University of Lu-gansk, have visited English Section lesson in Volodymyr Dahl East-Ukrainian Na-tional University.

It was an in-

teractive lesson aiming to make first-year listeners friends. They are pupils of different schools of Lugansk and the region in the whole and they have met for the second time this year, so few of them even knew the names of each other. That’s why the lesson was titled The Day of Friends. To wid-en horizons of science, to make new researches people should be a group of part-ners, they should develop their creativeness. And we

could see the atmosphere for creative work at this one lesson!

The children were di-vided into 3 teams on the principle of being from dif-ferent schools and towns. They were to contact a little to choose the captain, who made a choice of the name of the virtual country to be presented by the team then. The captains have chosen sheets with the names of CATLAND, BEAVERLAND and DOLPHINLAND. Then they were to create the name of the God of their virtual country, to create a legend about the God and show the ritual of honour-ing that God. The artistic abilities needed to draw an Emblem of the country and linguistic abilities helped to explain the symbolic mean-ing of the Emblem.

.

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Science-Gate

Elena

Dolzhenko Olga

Papulina

Sergey Polishchuk

Issue №5, September-October 2011 Page 9

Fourty-five minutes

have passed in a hard, but

merry creative work. The

teams were making much

noise while arguing ideas

and training the ―actors‖,

but at last they have

gained compromise and

have introduced to public

their first linguistic pro-

jects, which were so

bright, merry and fresh in

ideas! The International

Day of Smile was fully re-

alized at this show! We

could hear laughter and

nice legends, and songs in

English. Future scientists

have demonstrated their

talent in drawing, dancing

and dramatic arts. We

were a bit pity that we had

to be just the observers of

this bright Holiday of

Friends!

Larisa Alexeyevna

Bekresheva, a Senior

Teacher of Foreign Lan-

guage Department of Vo-

lodymyr Dahl East-

Ukrainian National Uni-

versity. It’s due to her en-

thusiasm and creative

ness that all the present

wanted to demonstrate all

their talents. She has orga-

nized that holiday, inspired

and supported her stu-

dents.

She made that lesson use-

ful and unforgettable for

everybody.

We have known that

Larisa Alexeyevna is really

a talented teacher whose

students create interest-

ing scientific researches,

visit scientific conferences

and win annual regional

competitions of scientific

works of members of Lu-

gansk Small Academy of

Science of School Youth.

She is really worth of her

students’ love and flowers

not only on the Teachers’

Day!

Science-Gate

Issue №5, September-October 2011 Page 10

Science-Gate

THE WINNERS THE WINNERS –– CITCITI-I-ZENS OF DOLPHINLANDZENS OF DOLPHINLAND

By the word, the Day of Friends

ended with small presents not

only for the team of winners —

the citizens of Dolphinland

(they all got nice colourful

Birds of Happiness, as Larisa

Alexeyevna said) – we, the

guests of their lesson, were giv-

en a Green Dragon as a present

for our Section of Journalism.

As you know, the green dragon

protects knowledge. A good

present for curious members of

Small Academy of School

Youth!

Our Green Dragon will live

in our classroom as the symbol of

friendship of two Sections of Lu-

gansk Small Academy of Science

of School Youth and two Univer-

sities as a whole – Taras

Shevchenko National University

and Volodymyr Dahl East-

Ukrainian National University.

We all come into the Science

Gate with a smile and strong de-

sire to work for our country of

Ukraine to be progressive and

flourishing!

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Talent Dewdrops

1) I have never met such people like you,

And it’s something unreal for you too.

I always believe you,

I see us in dreams

So, I know what it really means!!!

Maybe it’s not so serious for you,

But I do not want to believe that it’s true.

I miss you, my dear!

I miss you all time,

I’m eager to meet you at nine.

I’d like you read poem devoted to you,

But I know the problem

that will trouble you:

You will never brain it

If I don’t translate it!!!

2) This evening I am so sad,

Because you are not near.

And I am feeling so bad,

Because of having a fear.

This fear is concerning you.

I feel that I am missing you!

The autumn sky is so raining,

But I continue to waiting…

What?

It’s a simple call from you

For hearing

that my dream

come true!

Pupova Victoria

11th Form, School No 36,

A member of English Section

of Lugansk Small Academy of

Science of Ukraine.

The Guides:

Senior Teacher:

Bekresheva L.A.

Volodymyr Dahl East-Ukrainian National

University

Moldizhniy Block, 20-a Luhansk

Contacts:

(0642)41-94-57

proverka@example.com

Chief editor:

Katysheva Elena

Editing Collegium:

Volkova Anastasiya

THE EDITORS:

A little girl came home from school and said to her mother, "Mommy, today in school I was punished for something that I did-n't do. "The mother exclaimed, "But that's terrible! I'm going to have a talk with your teacher about this ... by the way, what was it that you didn't do?" The little girl replied, "My homework."

Teacher asked George: how can you prove the Earth is round? George replied: I can't. Besides, I never said it was.

Teacher: I said to draw a cow eating some grass but you've only drawn the cow ? Pupil: Yes, the cow ate all the grass !

Teacher: Can anyone give me the name of a liquid that won't freeze ? Pupil: Hot water !