1. Furman Gennadiy
Borysovych
Education:
- Ivan Franko Zhytomyr State Pedagogical Institute, speciality
“Teacher of English and German ”, 1992
- retraining course for English teachers at Beit-Berl College, Israel,
2002
Teaching experience:
-19 years, used to teach German and Hebrew
Personal achievements:
- the teacher’s students have been active participants and winners
of English Olympiads and contests.
2. The teacher’s been working on two problems:
“Teaching heterogeneous or mixed-level classes”
and
“Thinking cross-culturally”
or
“On the way to Europe”
6. Work Cards should include:
a form which indicates what kind of work the
pupil has been doing and at what level;
the “corrected” column that refers to whether
the pupil has corrected the work;
an answer key allows the teacher to check if
the pupil is progressing;
the comments column can be used both by
the teacher and the pupil for any remarks.
7. Extensive reading allows each pupil to choose a book
at his own level. The pupils should read for pleasure.
It will give them a feeling of satisfaction. There
should be a wide variety of books to choose from.
Dialogue Journals can give the pupils an
opportunity to freely express themselves.
8. The advantages in teaching
heterogeneous classes:
• variety of different backgrounds. Pupils can
benefit from different interests, cultural
backgrounds and world knowledge resulting in
more dynamic classroom interaction.
• motivation as both the weak and average
pupils are motivated to try and improve their
knowledge of English because of the input of
the stronger pupils.
9. Problem 2 “No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive”
Mahatma Gandhi
Communicative competence
cross-
cultural
competence
linguistic
competence
pragmatic
competence
10. Extra-curricular activities can help you
develop cross-cultural competence
• English contests
Extra-
curricular
activities
English contests
international
programmes
olympiads intellectual games
the English language week
“Debates”
English speaking club
research work
“MAN”
11. Cross-cultural competence
furthers the connection of theoretical knowledge with
practical skills and strategies of behavior
enables to understand the context in which the
language is used by native speakers and choose
language forms to achieve a desired communicative
effect.
anticipates the knowledge of another culture, respect
and tolerance towards others.
