I can ask my host family if I can invite my friends to my house and spend time with my friends there

Day 1: Multiple choice test

16 questions in 15 minutes

Strict rules – no speaking, cheating, etc.

Day 2: Long Test and Essays

Tests listening and reading

Essays - personal questions

Personality; How you deal with difficult situations

Why you want to study in America

Day 3: Interview and Parent Meeting

Group activities

Additional essays

Personal interview in English and Ukrainian

Who does FLEX want?

- English ability

- Personality

- Leadership potential

- Maturity

- Social skills

- Academic achievement

The FLEX Program Promotes

• Exchanges: two-way learning and building relationships between Americans and citizens of Eurasia

• Education: increased knowledge about civil society and volunteerism

• Engagement: participation in local community and school activities

• Empowerment: positive contributions to home communities upon return and the individual’s ability to make change

Practice Questions: You will be required to write essays about different topics. These are examples of what questions MIGHT be like. Look at the questions and think about some ideas for each. Be ready to write about questions you are not prepared for.

During the test, plan your time. Don’t use too time much for one essay. Use all of your time. If you finish writing, go back and check to make sure everything is correct.

When you are writing your answers, do not only give a simple answer. If there is a problem, think of 2 or 3 things you can do or steps you can take to solve the problem.

Ex. You are offered alcohol at a party. What do you do?

Simple answer – I won’t drink the alcohol.

Better answer – I won’t drink the alcohol. And…

I can stay at the party and not drink, but I still may get in trouble.

I can leave the party and go somewhere else with my friends, maybe to a restaurant or to see a film.

I can try to make friends with people that don’t drink.

I can ask my host family if I can invite my friends to my house and spend time with my friends there.

Me, FLEX, and America

1. Why do you want to go to America? What do you want to learn there? What do you think will be different about America and Ukraine?

2. What are three after-school activities you would like be involved with in America? Why?

3. If you get to pick three subjects to learn in America what would they be? Why do you want to take these subjects? How will they help your future?

4. Where do you want to go in the US? Why do you want to go there? What do you want to see there?

5. Why should you be picked by FLEX?

6. Why are you a good leader?

7. What do you want to tell Americans about Ukraine?

Communicating

1. You receive a test back from your teacher. She marked an answer incorrect which you think you did correctly. What do you do?

2. You would like to play on the school’s soccer team. How do you talk to the coach and ask for a tryout?

3. You find that you do not like the oatmeal that you host family eats each day for breakfast. How do you talk to the family about your likes and dislikes?

4. You are having problems understanding a teacher at your school. How do you talk to the teacher and ask for help?

Problem Solving

1. What will you do if you quarrel with someone in your family?

2. You get $125 a month for a scholarship in America. The first month you spent it all in the first week and now you cannot go to the movie with your family. How do you make a budget? If you want to buy a camera that costs $175 dollars what do you do?

3. You are in America and are lonely and miss your family. How do you handle it?

4. In America you find you do not fit in with the other students and are spending a lot of time alone. How do you make friends?

5. You are at a party with friends and someone gives you an alcoholic drink. What do you do?

Extra

1. Tell about the worst day of your life?

2. Describe a challenge you have overcome in your life.

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