Keyword: «культура»

The article summarizes the author’s experience of using various tasks when teaching English to Education majors – future primary school and English language teachers (Primary education and the English language) with the aim of arousing and developing interest in different art forms. The results of the survey of first-third-year students are described and analyzed; examples of creative tasks conducted with the Education majors are given and their educative value is analyzed.

In this article, I reviewed and analyzed one of the means of non-verbal communication, namely, a smile. I must say that a smile, as a kind of facial expressions, is quite significant. A smile is manifested and interpreted in different ways in different linguistic cultures, so the study of this means of non-verbal communication is more relevant than ever and inevitably important for building favorable intercultural relations between peoples.

The article represents the results of the study of the influence of American comic book culture on the manga genre. The author reveals the main stages in the development of both genres. Various works of these genres, obvious links between the two genres under discussion are viewed within the context of their interaction. In conclusion, the author summarizes the data and gives his assessment of the influence of comic book culture on the manga genre.