Keyword: «language picture of the world»

The article deals with the identification of mental differences among speakers of different European languages that allows to characterise the linguistic picture of the world of a particular people, its way of thinking and perception of reality. Identification of these differences is carried out on the example of phraseological units having a different de-gree of abstraction of the semantic structure. The proverbs and sayings were chosen as the units that characterise the way of thinking of native speakers the most brightly and clearly.

this article advocates the use of foreign language fiction in a linguistic class at school and singles out principles of the selection of authentic texts for the sake of organization of students’ regular and ex-tracurricular activities.