Keyword: «межкультурная коммуникация»

The article highlights effective ways of discussing the topic ‘Historical and archaeological sites in Karelia’ in the frame of teaching the course of local history of Karelia. Provided materials can be used with junior language and humanities university students and English language high school students. The article sums up the authors’ personal experience of teaching Karelian local history course to Linguistics majors and Education majors in foreign languages at Petrozavodsk State University and demonstrates the authors’ set of discussion tasks.

The current situation in the world is characterized by a revival of the interest in the folk culture among various nationalities. One of the most popular is the musical culture of Ireland. In the course of the work, the following research methods were used: the study of the literature, the generalization of the material, the comparison, the systematization and the analysis of the results obtained.