Keyword: «key competences»

The article highlights effective ways of teaching fiction reading skills, incorporating them into language teaching environment and using them in building students’ key competences, sums up the author’s personal experience of teaching home reading course to Education majors in foreign languages and demonstrates the author’s set of tasks aimed at contemporary British stories discussion.

The article highlights discussing the topic "Booking and staying at a hotel". The model includes a country-study text, stating the peculiarities of staying at a hotel in the USA, and vocabulary training and text related activities demanding the information search and discussion booking and staying at a hotel in Russia and Great Britain. Vocabulary and facts from the text are mastered on the basis of the content of the suggested text and intercultural comparison. Provided model can be used with English language high school students and junior language and humanities university students.