English Language Day at the Faculty of Philology and Intercultural Communication

English Language Day at the Faculty of Philology and Intercultural Communication

On April 18, 2022, the traditional English Language Day was held at the Faculty of Philology and Intercultural Communication as part of the "Days of Science-2022".

On this day, first-year students (groups LG-19, POia-13) took part in a phonetic competition, which took place in several stages.
Stage 1 "Readers' Contest", in which students competed in reading the famous poem by Rudyard Kipling "If", as well as poems dedicated to the royal personages of Great Britain. The purpose of this stage is to improve the skills of expressive reading of poetic works.
Competition results:
1st place – Polina Salnikova (POia-13)
2nd place – Angelika Popova (POia-13),
3rd place – Badulina Valentina and Kholod Elvira (POia-13).
Stage 2 "Competition for knowledge of the basics of English phonetics": the purpose is to test the level of knowledge of students on the topics of the course of practical phonetics of the English language.
Competition results:
Zlata Kuzmina (Poia-13), Eduard Tishakov (Lg-19) and Nadezhda Nefedova (Lg-19) were recognized as the best experts in the theoretical foundations of English phonetics.
Stage 3 "Jazz Chants Performance", in which each group presented its own version of Jazz Chants dialogues. The goal is to improve the skills of group coordinated rhythmically organized recitation; to cultivate the ability to perform tasks collectively.
Competition results:
The jury awarded the students of the group POia-13  in the nomination "Performance and Acting", the students of group LG-19 won in the nomination "Rhythm and Rhyme".
Outside of the competition program, students of the LG-29 group presented various tasks for the audience of the competition: reading tongue twisters in English, reading by transcription, and also staged jokes based on wordplay.