Furman Gennady Borysovych

Education:- Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State Pedagogical Institute, qualification “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.

The teacher’s been working on two problems:

“Teaching heterogeneous classes”

and “Forming socio-cultural competence through extra-curricular activities”

Problem 1

Teaching heterogeneous classes may be

one of the biggest challenges facing an English teacher.

How to teach heterogeneous classes ?

Individualization is an option which allows pupils to work according to their own level and interests.

Individualizaion can be implemented by means of: work cards extensive reading dialogue journals

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.

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.

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.

Problem 2 “No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive”. Mahatma Gandhi

Communicative competence

socio-cultural

competence

linguistic competence

pragmatic competence

• English contests

Extra-curricular activities

English contests

international programmes

olympiads intellectual games

the English language week “Debates”English speaking club

“MAN”

Sociocultural 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.

Thank you for your attention!