Video-conference of Oxford University and Educational Establishment “Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University”  (05.06.2015)

Teleconference between Oxford University and Educational Establishment “Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University” took place on June 05, 2015. The students and lecturers of Foreign Languages Faculty participated in the on-line meeting.
The British professor, Karen Hewitt, has been coming to Russia regularly for delivering lectures and classes on British Literature. Since 2005 Karen Hewitt conducts international seminar “Contemporary British Literature in Russian Universities”. The project is funded by Oxford-Russian Fund & is held annually at the Perm State University. More than 80 Russian & Belarusian Universities have become members of the project.
Karen Hewitt, Emeritus Professor of the PSU was awarded an Order of British Empire by Decree of the British Queen Elizabeth II for services to building academic and cultural understanding between the UK and Russia. She is the author of numerous books and articles.
The teleconference was organized on the initiative of Mogilev State University, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics by the lecturer Evgeniy Samsonov and Department of English Philology and Culture—Olga Rezvova and Tatyana Pinchukova.
Last year our teachers Olga Rezvova and Tatyana Pinchukova visited the Perm Seminar and delivered novels with commentaries as a gift from the Oxford-Russia fund.
Now our library has “Waterland” by G. Swift, “An Experiment in Love” by H. Mantel, “Regeneration” by P. Barker, “Atonement” by l. McEwan, “About a Boy” by N. Hornby, “White Teeth” by Z. Smith, “Ulverton” by A. Thorpe, “Morality Play” by B. Unsworth and other contemporary novels. The mentioned novels are being used for lessons and scientific works of students.
The students and lecturers had the possibility to share with Karen Hewitt their opinions on the books they read and discuss the following questions:
Points under discussion were the following:

• the work of the metaphor in the title “White Teeth”
• the aim of numerous lexicon layers in exposing multiculturalism in “White Teeth”
• the meaning of the playful ending in “Atonement”
• episodes selected for looking at the imagery and message in “Atonement”
• the role of language for taking up literature in class
• perspective heroes in the works of Hillary Mantel
• possibilities of contributing to Footpath

Footpath is a journal on contemporary British literature. It publishes articles on recent novels, drama, poetry and prints the best students' essays.
Our Faculty is planning to continue cooperation with “Oxford-Russia Fund”. Our lecturers, Tatyana Pinchukova and Natalia Pritychenko are going to Perm in September 2015 to take part in the IX International seminar “Contemporary British Literature in Russian and Belorussian universities”.

Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics & Department of English Philology and Culture
Senior lecturers Evgeniy Samsonov and Olga Rezvova

English language olympiad 2015 (Foreign langauges faculty)  (26.04.2015)

Olympiad on English language for students
2 LEVELS
1-2 COURSES AND 3-4 COURSES
LISTENING, READING, WRITING TASKS
“love, enjoy, explore”

THE WINNERS

1-2 COURSES
1^st place: Andron Yuriy (AN-21) & Zyikov Vladislav (AF-23)
2^nd place: Zubrinovitch Daria (AN-21) & Govyazina Alexandra (AF-13)
3^d place: Yachmeneva Valeria (AF-23)

3-4 COURSES
1^st place: Vasilkova Elena (AN-31) The champion!
2^nd place: Manitch Ekaterina (AF-33)
3^d place: Gretchina Yana (AN-41), Kuzmina Nina (AN-41) and Romenskaya Evgeniya (AF-33)

Thank you all for your participation.
Hope to see you next year!

Natalia Pritychenko & Evgeniy Samsonov

Project “Tourist route around Belarus”  (09.2015)

In September 2015 the students of the 3^rd year of the faculty of foreign languages (group AF-33) prepared and presented the project “Tourist route around Belarus”. It is a very challenging and much-in-demand work as now attracting tourists to our country and popularization of information about Belarus is really important. Our country is rich in picturesque places, architectural monuments, castles and cathedrals to show. The only problem here is to work out a successful plan including the right combination of the brightest places of interest and the show order. That was the task for students and they created their unique tourist routes. So they did it really well!

English-speaking club “Nature protection”  (10.2015)

In October the Center organized a meeting with Mr. Mel Rogers. The students were really glad to have an opportunity to talk with a native speaker. The main topic was “Nature protection” (the topic of Speech practice for the 3^rd year students — they were in the majority). But the people were inspired and asked a lot of questions about life in Great Britain, the teacher’s job in English-speaking countries and career prospects, national stereotypes. Mel Rogers is an excellent speaker, and the students felt free to communicate. It’s a unique chance for the students of the faculty of foreign languages to improve their language and develop professional skills. Thank you, Mel! ㋡

Advanced training courses for teachers  (24.02.2016)

The Centre of English language and culture together with Mogilev regional institution of education development conducted advanced training courses for teachers on February 24, 2016. About 30 teachers from Mogilev and the region took part in the seminar. The topic was “Role-plays and game methods in teaching English”. The lecturer, A. K. Shevtsova used multimedia presentations, video fragments to show the possibilities of modern gaming techniques. There were shown various educational games to train grammar (e.g. irregular verbs, tense forms), vocabulary (e.g. Work with flash cards, Running dictation) and speech skills (e.g. Students’ projects, Skype communication). Thank you very much for cooperation, team spirit and enthusiasm!