Meeting on 22 July 2014

Dear Friends, 

Do you know what is Glossophobia? How to overcome your fear of public speaking? How to face your past fears? Should you appreciate your kids? 
The people who have visited our Changemakers Club on 22nd July know all the answers.

 Mr.Toastmaster, Graham Siebert, shared the quotation with us"Never in doubt, but often wrong"and lead the meeting. 

Yuriy Nechayev informed us in his speech on the role of information in our life and gave a piece of advice not to watch any news or search Internet before going to bed. This is really a very important for all of us especially during summer, when we could take a walk and breath warm and pleasant night air.

Oksana Sayko encouraged us to get updated from young generation and was assuring that every person is a teacher in someone's life. Throughout the meeting we had to recall our fears (fear of public speaking, fears from our childhood and youth), and these fears appeared to be very nice and pretty. Masha Kuzmenko did a great job and prepared a short training explaining how to overcome the fear of public speaking.

Lucy Povaliy arranged a great Table Topic session where our guests and members could talk on their fears. The most memorable phrases from that TT session:

• you don't have any fear if you are in love (especially if you are a student)  
• if you turn your face to your past then you turn your back to your future
• you have to think about something pleasant not to be afraid of something (for example, about dolls)
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Dear friends, please overcome your Glossophobia (fear of public speaking), be pro-active and come to our next meeting on Tuesday, 29 July 2014!!!

Meeting of the Detective Agency "Changemakers"

Dear friends, 
we had a wonderful meeting on Wednesday with a detective story and lots of fun!
A police officer from one local office visited our meeting to ask a piece of advice on what had happened in a room at the outskirts of the city.
He provided us with the crime scene and five pieces of evidence which had been found in the room. They were strange and unrecognizable so everybody in the room understood we could not help that poor officer.
The officer was not able to solve the riddle, but was very creative. By using her superpowers, she raised ghosts of five famous detectives - Monsieur Poirot, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Commisionair Maigret and Mr. Columbo.

The moment captured the scene, when Monsieur Poirot realised the task was so tough, he even lost his moustache. You know, only twice Poirot was mislead in his life, and on Wednesday it happened  third time. Even his little grey cells couldn't help him.

Past Immediate Area Governor from Madrid (Spain) Alex aka Commissioner Maigret proved he was an excellent detective. He immediately understood that no crime had been committed and the stain of blood on the floor was actually  spilled wine. What a brain, Mr. Maigret! Bravo.

Want to check your Crime and Punishment vocabulary?
Solve this riddle.There is a crossword puzzle in the first worksheet. The second contains a matching exercise and a close exercise.