Olga Lebedenko

The article is devoted to the problem of organization of Student Olympiads as one of the effective forms of extracurricular work of university students. The article describes the experience of organizing the Foreign Languages Olympiad movement at Omsk State Agricultural University. The study allows to come to a conclusion about the effectiveness of the Foreign Languages Chair instructors’ work for organizing the extracurricular activities of students.

The paper is devoted to the problem of compound nouns translation in specialized texts (in terms of the German language) for non-linguistic students. The methods of compound noun parts identification and the order of their translation are described.