The teacher of the Foreign Languages Department Svitlana Mikhno passed the second stage of the training within the British Council project "English for Universities", which took place on July 1-6 in Irpin (Kyiv oblast), at the Summer School of Professional Development.

 The trainings were devoted to modern approaches of the development of speaking, reading, comprehension, listening and writing skills of students, the use of electronic teaching aids, lesson planning and its analysis under the guidance of British Council professional tutors. The CIVELT 2: Language of ESP course that lasts 36 hours involves the obligatory dissemination of knowledge among other teachers of our university.

On April 15, on the basis of the Department of Foreign Languages of the Sumy State University, the second round of trainings was held for young people within the project "Young WIT". Highly-honored coaches Andriana Kostenko (Sumy State University) and Stefan Stirling (US Peace Corps in Ukraine) taught students to present themselves to future employers, highlighted the peculiarities of the development of the IT sector and the opportunity for young people to get promising work. Each participant took a video of a resume lasting 60 seconds which was presented and analysed by the trainers. We thank Benjamin Stewart, the training director (US Peace Corps in Ukraine), for one more interesting event.

On March All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Teachers "To Make the World Smarter and Safer" was successfully held at the Department of Foreign Languages of Sumy State University. The conference takes place at the initiative of the Linguistic Educational Center and the student's scientific club of the Department of Foreign Languages. The purpose of the event is to involve students and post-graduate students into the discussion in a foreign language, to improve the ability to present materials and express their own point of view in professional and academic field. Reports were devoted to the innovations in the field of medicine, socio-cultural technologies, engineering, electronics. Students demonstrated the ability to present their own ideas in a foreign language and at the end of the conference each participant was awarded with a certificate.

This is the ninth time Sumy State University organizes student scientific conference “The First Step into Science”. The purpose of the event is to form students’ interest in the scientific research. This year student Viktoria Ponomarenko, group IT-62, took the second place in the category “Mathematics. Computer and Information Technologies”. She presented the results of her research on the topic «CREATE YOUR OWN 3D LIFE» in English.

The following presentations were also done in a foreign language:

Savytska I.V., student; Sumy State University, group L-73 «LAW SUPPORT TO FOREIGNERS IN UKRAINE» (Scientific advisor: Milenkova R.V.)

Shamonin K.E, student, SSU KB-71 «QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY» (English language advisor: Plokhuta T.M.)

Solodova E., student; SSU, гр. PЕ-71/1у «WHY DO WE NEED TO DEVELOP OURSELVES?» (Language consultant, Darja Medvdedovska)

Burnakova V.Y., the student of Sumy State University, gr. ME-71an/1y «DECENTRALIZATION IN UKRAINE» (The supervisor: Shkodkina Y.M.)

D. Petryk, Student of Education and Research Institute for Business Technologies “UAB” of Sumy State University, FBS-61a «THE ESSENCE AND WAYS OF IMPROVEMENT OF MONETARY POLICY IN UKRAINE» (Supervisor O.I. Leshchenko)

Olkhovik D.O., student; SSU, gr. ME-71an «SOURCES OF REPAYMENT OF UKRAINE'S STATE DEBT» (Supervisor: Shkodkina Yu.M., Senior Lecturer)

Semykash V., student; SSU, ІМ-61 «ORGANIC FERTILIZER MANUFACTURING FOR GROWING OF ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FOODS”, (Supervisor: Ostroga R.O., assistant professor)

Tretiak T., student; Sumy State University, group M-61 «INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AS A SEPARATE STRATUM OF SOCIETY» (Scientific supervisor: S. V. Mikhno, instructor)

Lisovska D.V., student; SSU, group M-71 «THE PROBLEM OF EMPLOYABILITY OR WILL I GET A JOB OF MY DREAM” (Leader: Turchyna T.V.)

Nikolaev S., student; SSU, gr. E-71 «ECONOMIC CRISIS IN UKRAINE AND SOME WAYS TO OVERCOME IT” (Language advisor: Turchyna T.V.)

Shapoval V. Y., student; SSU, Gr. ME-71an “PERSONAL FINANCE: HOW TO PAY FOR YOURSELF” (Supervisor: Shkodkina Y. M., Senior Lecturer)

Roman Kotiuk, student; SSU, M-71 «THE IMPORTANCE OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN THE LABOR MARKET”, Derbeniov K. O., student; SSU, gr. IE-72a (МЕ-72а) «FREACONOMICS. BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS. NONRATIONAL BEHAVIOR” (Scientific adviser: Nilova N. M., Associate Professor Language adviser Andreyko L.V., Associate Professor)

Krasnenko R.І, student; SumDU, group МЕ-61 «LEADERSHIP IN OUR LIFE” (Instructor: Kozachenko Yuliia Sergiivna, Ph.D.)

Vyalkova V.V., student; SSU, IE-72a «CRYPTOCURRENCY MARKET IN UKRAINE AND ITS LEGALITY. KARBOWANETS” (Language advisor: Andreyko L.V., Associate Professor)

Kate Bogomolova, student; SSU, PE-71 «WATER POLUTION IN UKRAINE» (Language consultant Daria Medvedovska)

Skrynnik S.V, student; SSU, group PE-71 «THE IMORTANCE OF E-COMMERCE” (Language consultant: Darja Medvedovska), Kocherhin S.S., student of Sumy State University, group ЕC-61А «NANOTECHNOLOGIES IN THE ECONOMY OF UKRAIN” (Supervisor: Khodtseva A.O., associate professor)

Hryhorenko Y.I , student; SSU, gr. E-71 «CORRUPTION IN MEDICINE IN UKRAINE. SOME WAYS TO OVERCOME” (Language advisor: Turchyna T. V.

Malonkina I.S., student; Sumy State University, group PA-71 “METHOD OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCE ON EMPLOYEES” (Supervisor Iu.O. Myroshnychenko, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at the Department of Management)

Motuzna A.V., student of Sumy State University, Group Ju-71 «WHY STUDENTS OF LAW NEED ENGLISH» (Language advisor: Liashenko I.V., Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages Department Education & Research Institute for Business Technologies “UAB”)

Karina Khachataryan, student; Sumy State University, gr. JT-61 «STYLISTICS OF THE PRINTED MEDIA LANGUAGE (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE NEWSPAPER “DАУ”) (Scientific Advisor: Ph. D. Nina Maliovana)

Daria Ivanova, student; Sumy State University, gr. PR-71 «TRANSLATION FEATURES OF THE ENGLISH FILM TITLES INTO UKRAINIAN» (Academic supervisor: Yemelyanova O. V., Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Philological Sciences)

Dorohokuplya A.O., student; Sumy State University, gr. PR-71 «LACUNAS TRANSLATION FROM ENGLISH INTO UKRAINIAN” (Academic supervisor: Yemelyanova O. V., Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Philological Sciences)

Rava V. M., student; SumDU, gr. PR-62 «LANGUAGE MANIPULATION IN ADVERTISING” (Teacher: Prokopenko A. V., senior lecturer)

Aliona Kovalenko, student, Sumy State University, group PR–61/1 «POWER OF LANGUAGE MEANS IN THE TEXTS OF HOROSCOPES» (Academic supervisor: Olena Popova, Ph. D. in Philological Sciences, Associate Professor)

Guest Tinofara Mpofu, student; SSU, gr. MTS.m-740an «ZIMBABWE: A CASE OF MORE THAN JUST SIXTEEN OFFICIAL LANGUAGES» (Scientific supervisor: Dyadchenko А.V., superior teacher)

I.O.Kravchenko, Sumy State University, SR-71 group «HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS ONE OF THE MODERN PROBLEMS OF MANKIND» (EL Adviser O.R.Gladchenko)

The teachers of the Foreign languages department Inna Zaitseva, Nina Maliovana, Svitlana Mikhno participated in the winter teacher training school that was held within The English for Universities project which aim is to improve the levels of English in Ukraine’s universities among both university teaching staff and students at which they can fully participate on the international stage. The project objective is to help Ukraine create its own sustainable EL teaching capacity to take students to B2 or C1 CEFR levels; introduce standards based on the recommendations of consultancies assessing what is needed to reach goals of fluency in English amongst more staff and students.

The teachers of the department successfully completed the course «CiVELT (Certificate in Vocational English Language Teaching): Essentials», 35 hours in total. The modules of the course included:

ü  What is ESP?

ü  Understanding Needs

ü  Motivation

ü  Positive Classroom Interaction

ü  Developing Authentic Tasks

ü  Exploiting Vocational Contexts as Resource

ü  Adapting the Given Coursebook

ü  Identifying and Selecting Lesson Aims

ü  Components of the Lesson

ü  Lesson Planning

The experience of the teacher training school is going to be shared at the department to make lessons more efficient and facilitate teaching and studying the English language.

The foreign languages department of Sumy State University hosted the XII National Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Postgraduate Students and Teachers «To Make the World Smarter and Safer».

The event was initiated by the Language Centre and student scientific club of the department. The leader of the conference was a first year student Maksym Shkurman.

The conference involved undergraduate, graduate and post graduate students into the discussions using Academic English, helped to master their presentation skills, and express opinions in a foreign language. The speakers delivered the results of the researches in Medicine, Social and Cultural Technologies, Engineering, Electronics. Each presenter was awarded with a certificate.

Seniour teacher of the Foreign languages department Oksana Hladchenko and seniour teacher of the Physical education department Antonina Siryk participated in the international badminton tournament «Kyiv Badminton 2018» and took several medals.

In pair category WD 50+ Oksana Hladchenko and Antonina Siryk became absolute winners. In mixed categories XDC and XD 50+ Oksana Hladchenko took the bronze.

More than 200 sportsmen from Ukraine, India, Moldova and Russia took part in this tournament.

Congratulations to our teachers on their successful performance!

One more group of employees at PJSC "Sumy NPO", one of the leading European engineering complexes in manufacturing equipment for oil, gas, atomic and fine-chemical processing industry, has passed the course on Business English and improved the skills of speaking a foreign language. Managers from the sales department enriched their vocabulary in Business English and practiced speaking English on Business themes.

The course is organised and supported by the Linguistic Center of the Foreign Languages Department of Sumy State University. The lecturer of the course is Alla Diadechko.

The learners are looking forward to the next course in the next year.

The Foreign languages department hosted teacher training sessions for school and university teachers of Sumy and Sumska oblast. The lectures and trainers were native speakers, Peace Corps volunteers who work at schools, universities and community development projects of Sumska oblast. Directors of the Teacher Camp Excite were Benjamin Stewart and Lauren Grubbs. Lecturers and trainers – Glenn Anderson, Laurens Kahn, Aaron Kennet, Jaclyn White, Katherine Menzies. The topics covered included motivation, communicative methodology, working with different skill levels, classroom management techniques, academic integrity etc. Such events are crucial in case of artificial foreign language environment. Ongoing updating of new approaches to learning foreign languages, adjustment to modern life is under serious consideration for nowadays education.