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A T W OR L D CE N T E R …

Do you know that…

Great news from our staff Masha

Makarenko and Nastya Mironenko

who passed CAE exam with flying

colours. We always knew that we

employ only the best!

September promises to be a hot time

for teachers and students alike. As

WorldCenter presents its FunClub

with electrifying and trilling

activities which you are encouraged

to visit. This month on 18th

at 10 a.m.

you are welcomed to visit Team

Challenge – a quest that you are sure

to remember. On 28th

at 8 p.m. you

are to immerse into the world of

Mafia! Note that all the events are

conducted in English and prior

subscription is necessary at our blog

at blog.worldcenter.com.ua!

We also have a great newcomer in

out team. So, we proudly present

Donald Hall – an American

professor who will be teaching at

WorldCenter. You can find detailed

information about him in this issue

of the newspaper.

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September 2010

E V E R Y S T UDE N T M AT TER S

For everyone!!!!

Your wait is almost over

It is an all new semester of battle of opinions versus real English

zone, lonely hearts column versus slang and every note in between

It’s gonna be magical

the best newsletter returns

All new WorldScribbler is at your doorstep

Meet the staff

WorldCenter team is tight-knit community which always strives to

provide prime source materials for our students. As a result we

decided that you need to know about our prime performers and

high-flyers and thus, get a real taste of our school. These are

simple and very intimate stories, eddying out into a more powerful

exploration of our staff. So, keep abreast with WorldCenter and

discover it with our professional and highly-qualified staff.

To teach well is to be a lifelong student

Iryna Yeryomenko - Chief Executive officer

I thought it was a great idea that WorldScribbler gives our

customers a chance to meet all our staff…until I had to write

about myself. I am the WorldCenter Executive Manager. This is

the official title but what lies behind is a “dynamo” and the

driving force of a fast developing and increasingly popular

language center.

I started my career as an English teacher and have

experience in teaching all age groups and levels with students

gaining really great results and international certifications. Being

perfectly aware of the students needs and striving for perfection I

do my best to inspire all our staff members to

study for extra qualifications and polish their professional skills.

I spent my late teens and early twenties gaining experience

in developing, running and monitoring social projects, taking

active part in international groups preventing trafficking in

women and HIV\AIDS transmission and in retrospective it’s hard

to believe I have done so many various things. Now I realize that

my experience in working with people and open-mindedness

gives WorldCenter a number of benefits. This is why we are

client-oriented and friendly, we maintain high quality standards

and come up with new ideas to cater to the needs of our

customers, to make them happy and give them the sense of

belonging.

If you are reading this page- you belong to our

WorldCenter community and thus, you are the person we value

and we appreciate your choice.

Enjoy your time at and with the WorldCenter and we’ll do

our best to brighten up your impressions.

Anna Isayeva – Head Teacher

Picture the following scenario.

You enter WorldCenter premises and the

second person after Tanya that you see

is a smiling, energetic and a bit absent-

minded figure. She is either rushing

about with WorldScribbler in her hands

or laughing out loud with her students in

the classroom. Did you catch a drift?

Right, this is me. Thus, WorldCenter

became an outlet for two passions of

mine. The first is teaching which

became a second nature to me and the

second one is a lively interaction with

people of various walks of life. I will

spare you off the details of how I got

engaged into teaching and will just tell

you that I hit a big time in this particular

field. To expose the brightest sides of

my career I would mention that I possess

CPE, CAE, TOEFL, TKT Certificates, I

am a Cambridge Examiner and

Invigilator, an active member of British

Council activities, Editor-in-chief of

WorldScribbler and I am a former

member of English Drama Society. As

fate had it, with teaching I entered the

springtime of my power.

I also have a soft spot for other

languages like Italian and need to brush

up on my French. Besides this, I am

obsessed with partying and clubbing. So,

my life seems to be a real roller coaster.

Though I don't mind!

Thus, when you visit

WorldCenter next time, I am certain that

by accident or design I will welcome

you with my never fading smile!

Andrey Yeryomenko

Project Development Manager Let’s get acquainted!

I like live beer and WorldCenter. I am

responsible for info support of our site,

contributing into blog, devising and launching

advertising campaigns. I am a leader of the

project “English for schools”. So, if you found

out about Worldcenter other than through

recommendation, it means you found out about

WorldCenter from me.

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There is no short cut to learning

I don’t think it’s necessary to mention my age… As Britney

Spears sings in her song “I’m not a girl, not yet a woman” I have

been working for company World Center for 4 years already and I am

not going to stop doing it in the nearest future. Why I chose this job, I

mean to be a teacher… It’s a complicated question… I can’t say I have

been dreaming about it all my life… on the contrary I was even afraid

to think about it but I regret nothing now! I really get a lot of pleasure

from everything I do because my students are not just people I teach, all

of them are my friends and all of them are individual! There are some

situations when they teach me. I even have a funny example… It

happened two years ago with one of my young learners. Of course I

don’t remember the date but that day I felt really bad, I had terrible

headache… So this student came up to me and asked “Marina, what

happened?” I looked at her and replied “You know my dear I’m so

tired, I want do nothing….” She (yes it was a young lady) interrupted

my speech and said “Don’t say so… thoughts are material!” I was really

surprised because she was only 7

This job also brought me professional achievements. Last year I

passed two parts of the international exam TKT and got two certificates.

I was asked not to be shy… so I am really proud of myself. This year

I am planning to pass one more international exam CAE and if I

manage to do it, it will be a great success because the biggest problem I

always face is laziness Though, I don’t give up, I believe in myself

and in my skills!

Tatyana Doroshenko -

office manager I originate

from Luganska oblast, Krasnodon. Though

few people heard about this place, it is

steeped in a very rich history. After I left

school, I decided to leave this place for good,

so the question where to build my next nest

wasn’t acute. It is definitely Donetsk. Besides,

at that time my sister was living and working

in Donestk. Gradually it became my second

home! Upon graduating from Donestk

National University I landed a cushy job

within WorldCenter in the capacity of office

manager and have been with them for two

years already. I think that I am really lucky.

My job involves several aspects, the main of

which is interaction with people, different

people! So, I would venture calling myself a

psychologist as I adopt an individual and

unique approach as well as charming smile to

any existing and potential clients.

Mariya Makarenko - teacher

World Center team is glad you

have found time to read this first-hand

account about one of our talented

teachers. We are eager to start this

exciting, intriguing trip with you to

Mariya’s key teaching qualities,

ambitions and achievements so we hope

you will enjoy it and find useful.

She is a 24 year old native of

Donetsk where her education in

languages and passion for English began.

She has graduated from the Faculty of

Foreign Languages with a profession of a

translator& interpreter and additional

qualification of a teacher. Her interest in

communication with people encouraged

her to pursue interpreting work as a top

priority of her career. However, rushing

for a variety of international industrial

events in Europe as well as Ukraine was

not enough to apply her mind abilities

creatively. As a result she has joined

WorldCenter team and become a valuable

asset of our teaching staff.

Mariya’s teaching moto is '

People have no troubles, they have

challenges'. So if you are keen on

studying which is not a piece of cake she

is your choice. Mariya does her best to

make classes saturated with mainly

original speaking and listening activities

which are always full of creativity and

fun. She is active, cheerful, full of energy

and optimistic so this mix is rather catchy

if you are her student.

In 2009 Mariya was awarded

with CAE Cambridge Certificate and

Teaching Knowledge Test . Yet being

enthusiastic and inspired of her job she

intends to improve her grades continually.

Having enough behind her shoulders she

is keen on mastering other languages. So

you are highly welcome to have a chance

to enjoy the bright colors of her teaching

and sample hilarious atmosphere at her

classes.

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Experience is a good teacher but she sends in terri fic bills

Kate Novodvorska - teacher

When I was getting ready for

an interview in World Center, I didn’t

expect something special. According

to my experience, all language schools

are pretty much alike. However, when

I opened the door of World Center, I

knew it was another cup of tea:

smiling and friendly Tatyana who

meets the guests ushered me to a nice

light lobby that uncovered the wall of

honour of the center.

I was impressed by a number of various certificates

that school’s teachers possess (though I have CAE certificate

myself) and references from very reputable enterprises who

attended classes in the center. Later on, I found out that the

center’s got a long history of successful teaching in Donetsk,

which couldn’t but appeal to me. More than that, the teachers

of the center are improving their qualification everyday for as

all we know language always leaves a lot of room for

perfection.

It’s easy to see I’m preoccupied with English and I

want to show people that learning English is fun. In most

cases school experience of learning foreign languages carves

the image of boring exercises in people’s minds. I want to

change this tendency. For me, learning and teaching English is

not a job but entertainment. Needless to say, I take this job

seriously but I want my students to indulge in the classes. And

I’m happy that the rest of the staff looks at the same direction.

I hope to become a successful contributor to a fine thing that

World Center is doing.

However, English is not the only craze of Kate’s life;

that’s what she says about her hobbies.

To be honest, I think I’m best at English. I never took up

dancing, singing, or painting when I was a child; I was

enjoying my happy childhood and my English lessons.

However, I must admit I’m a real culture vulture; I value

highly all kinds of arts, be it music, cinema, theatre,

architecture, painting, and so on. What can be more surprising,

I feel some weakness for medicine; if English didn’t took the

prior place in my heart, medicine would definitely do it

instead. Besides, all my friends know that I’m obsessive about

alternative music, ballet, English books, cooking, and

equestrian sport. I took up the latter recently though I have

wanted to try it since my childhood. Certainly, I must admit

that I’m a complete newbie at that but I feel I was born for this

sport. I prefer open spaces for riding to tight racecourses; from

my perspective, it is more natural to this kind of activities in

the open air. I would highly recommend everybody who

indulges in exploits try riding in the mountains; for me this

was a kind of revelation when I first had it a go in Crimea.

This is a short insight in Kate’s life. Mad about

English, she confesses she’s ready to help everybody in

learning it. Serious, industrious, open-minded, exuberant, she

has all chances to start a brilliant career in World Center.

Victoriya Vergiles – teacher I’m very-very pleased to introduce

myself to you guys. Well…yes! There are

obviously three most important things you

should know about me: YOUNG,

ATRACTIVE, SMART. A good combination,

right!;) I love my life, love everything it gives

to me…and I’m very much in love with this

world! So I am doing my best to make it

better! I consider myself to be a part of a new

generation, which, I believe, is to bring a lot of

good and significant changes into Ukrainian

system. Among my biggest achievements is

the nicest diploma of “Democracy

Ambassador” and the most nerve racking – the

diploma of Donetsk National University,

bachelor of Arts majored in English.

Hobbies!? Yes! Dancing is my biggest

hobby. Travelling is like some fresh air to

breathe. And languages are my true passion.

Doesn’t matter where my life will bring me to

I will always take this passion with me,

because it makes my world bigger and better!

Anastasiya

Myronenko - teacher

Hello! Although I seem to

be a quiet person I'm really-really

active!

Except from teaching (the most

challenging and creative job ever!) my interests

range from sport, films, music and theatre to

journalism, politics and mathematics.

I'm also an organizer of a social project "Donetsk

Youth Media-School" aimed at development of

freedom of speech in Ukraine.

In my free time I often play mafia and other

communicative games, or just reading something.

My favorite book is "Three Man in a Boat" by

Jerome K. Jerome. I'm also collecting sugar in

small packets (147 items!) and would be happy if

you support me to expand my collection.

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Learn, Learn and Learn…

Anastasiya Yeryomenko -

teacher Strength of a

character, creativity, the

mosaic of high

thoughts, strongly

pronounced features of

a leader combined with

a readiness for team-

work – these are some

edges of my many-

sided personality.

At University I am one of the best

students, who are on the guard of the image of

the Faculty of Foreign Languages. My success

was worthily estimated not only be the

professors of the home department (that express

my abilities in the equivalent high points), as

well as by the foreign organizations. In 2009 I

was honored to be given a grant to visit the

courses of German language at one of the best

schools of Interpreting and Translation in the

city Germersheim (Germany, University of

Mainz).

I represent one of the “LIONS CLUB”

in Donetsk. The aim of this International

Organization is to support the international

coordination and communication between the

students from all the countries of the world.

Moreover, “Leo” organizes charity programs

for own region and its residents. In Summer

2009 I took part in the international cultural

project and successfully represented Ukraine in

Finland, and showed the citizens form more

than 36 different countries the depth and wealth

of the Ukrainian soul. Thus Ukraine got an

absolutely new image in the eyes of

representatives of European countries and the

far abroad.

Besides, I favored the development of

the musical art in our region working as an

interpreter of German language for The Donetsk

regional Philharmonic Society during the third

“Johann Sebastian Bach Academy”.

My professional skills are - the

accuracy, diligence, high level of individuality

and creativity. I succeeded to gain respect

among the students and colleagues of the

Faculty. Being oriented to the west-standards of

work, I know what exactly means to WORK IN

TEAM. I am ready to make decisions, to take

responsibility upon myself and I am ready to

compromises. I always try to show the

initiative, and in this way I want to fill the

atmosphere around myself with diligence and

devotion to my work.

Donald Hall - professor The statement that follows is

based mainly on personal

impressions gathered after many

years of living and working in the

United States, Greece and now

Ukraine. As I’ve stated before in

other contexts, we tend to see our

own country most clearly when we

see it from a distance, and maybe we

tend to feel most alive when the

environment around us is new,

unfamiliar, uncertain.

For me, living abroad, outside my own native

country, has been the most valuable, the most intense

experience of my life, an education in reality that put into

practice the theoretical knowledge learned at the

university.

Being an American citizen, I received my formal

academic training in English literature and creative writing

at various universities along the eastern coast of the United

States. I then spent many years putting my diplomas to use

as a professor of English at a big university in the state of

Virginia where my students and I discussed what makes

great literature great, and where I showed them how to

write organized, persuasive, well-documented essays about

those remarkable literary characters whose experience of

the world always seems so much more intense than our

own because they face difficult circumstances beyond their

control; circumstances that challenge the belief systems of

their own limited, personal worlds; circumstances which

require those characters to re-invent their lives.

Because those characters have faced the world,

maybe they find out the hard way that money isn’t an end

in itself; or that they had spent a lifetime living by a code

of complex lies rather than by a simple truth; or that love

didn’t last for the very reason that they had no idea who

they themselves really were until the trials of experience

opened their eyes. The characters who survive those crises

– not all of them do – see the world differently because

they’ve learned that the old ways of doing things can no

longer be trusted, and they persist in living courageously

by higher standards even though they may encounter

resistance to those ideals around every corner. Because

they persist we call them “heroic,” we admire them and

wonder if we ourselves, as students of literature, will ever

live that intensely, but at the same time consider ourselves

fortunate that we don’t have to face their difficulties,

because nobody actually wants a life that hard. Because

they are frightening, more often than not those challenges

have to be forced on us. But on rare occasions there are

individuals who accept them voluntarily.

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Donald Hall continued

Those are a few of the ideas that my students and I discussed as we sat in our very controlled, very air

conditioned environment to learn abstractly the lessons of great literature so that my students could write their

essays to pass the class, receive their diplomas, get jobs with fat paychecks, and live happily ever after in the

suburbs. University administrators had devised class schedules that programmed the entire day, the entire

semester, the entire year for us so that much of the university experience became routine, predictable, familiar.

Unlike those great literary heroes, none of us appeared to be living intensely except in the most academic

sense; that is, we were thinking hard, using our heads, solving problems intellectually, each one thinking for

him-/herself, planning careers, laying out step-by-step a programmed life. But the real experiences of life, the

ones that aren’t predictable, seemed to be outside the borders of that little utopia called “university, ” and

compared to the challenges faced by those heroic literary characters the demands of university life were as

easy, as certain, as safe as that routine in the suburbs would later become for many of my students. We spend

a lifetime learning to build our own private little worlds, but it’s very easy to get trapped, to become

complacent, to compromise one’s freedom in the prisons of those worlds.

If there’s a moral anywhere in this story, maybe it’s this: There’s an ironic distinction between those literary

heroes, the ones we study and admire in university literature classes, who face the trials of experience and

learn something new from the world, and a mode of thinking that strives to protect us from those trials and

that knowledge. But the university system that basically protects us from an experience of the world, that

emphasizes the individual’s preparation for a career, that grooms students to be complacent but gives little or

no instruction, for example, in the complexities of foreign mentalities does a disservice to the public and to

those individual students.

For better or worse, those literary heroes belong to a world much bigger than they are but of which they are

still a part, a world which they struggle to comprehend for all of its good and evil. An educational system that

emphasizes the material benefits of the individual rather than the individual’s place in the international

community succeeds only in further fragmenting a world already in conflict. Education as theory on one hand

and real experience on the other should be used as complements of each other not only for the benefit of the

single individual who builds his own private world, but also as a means of making the fragmented world

whole again. This should be the goal of any good teacher or any educational system.

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