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ISSUES  >  ISSUE 1/2004 N9 (N1-2004) Eureka! Contest We would like to have some feedback on how you use the site in teaching English. Each month the English Language Office of the US Embassy in Moscow will choose a winner from those submitting input, who will receive a PRIZE. More >> Quiz Inventions: irresistible trivia and historical breakthroughs More >> Effective Teaching DEVELOPING AMERICAN STUDIES COURSES, or how to make American studies courses for pre-service teachers more communicative and true to life? I'd like to share my own point of view on achieving the goal of increasing practical English language skills through American Studies Courses in ELT programs. More >> Crossroads of Cultures Russia and South Africa There is an enormous geographical distance between Russia and South Africa. Therefore there are many differences too. More >> Discover the world anew! If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following... More >> Being American Vanity Plates  (exercise) Being Russian Once upon a time at the faculty of mechanics and mathematics... Towards the 250th anniversary of Moscow State University. More >> Cool! Expanding theatrical horizons: 'Nirvana' Yuri Grymov, the renowned eccentric film and stage director, has again shaken the Moscow audience with his brand new play called, "Nirvana." More >> E-Talk Internet Shorthand  (exercise) Where to Go, What to See The Russian Church When a person from the West enters a Russian church everything seems alien. Centuries of intellectual enlightenment have been ignored and the worst aspects of the worship of images is obvious. But if we suspend our natural cynicism and absorb the atmosphere for a moment we may sense something lost in the West: The feeling of being in the presence of a great mystery. More >> Church singing Church singing, which stimulates a prayerful spirit and instructs and strengthens the believer in his faith, occupies a special place in the spiritual life of the Russian Orthodox Church. Church choral music and prayer are indivisible, for the person who sings a spiritual song is also uttering a prayer. More >>

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