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Keyword: «contest»

The article discusses the role of extracurricular activities as necessary components of teaching English in school. Possible areas of extracurricular work in English are suggested here.
The article presents some pages of the history of career guidance at the Institute of Foreign Languages of PetrSU (formerly at the Department of Foreign Languages of KSPI), accentuates the importance of high-school students’ professional self-determination, and highlights some directions, forms and methods of career guidance at the IFL. A tribute is also paid to the problem of close interaction between the university and secondary educational institutions. The authors summarize the experience of a number of teachers of IFL and provide vivid examples of the participation of teachers, students of IFL and students of secondary schools in the city of Petrozavodsk and the Republic of Karelia in cooperative career guidance activities.