Furman Gennady Borysovych has 19 years of teaching experience, having taught German, Hebrew, and English. He received his education qualification from Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State Pedagogical Institute and underwent retraining in Israel. He has worked on issues related to teaching heterogeneous classes using individualization through work cards, extensive reading, and dialogue journals. His other focus area is forming socio-cultural competence through extracurricular activities like English contests, international programs, and clubs. Socio-cultural competence helps connect theoretical knowledge to practical skills, understand language use in its cultural context, and foster respect and tolerance for other cultures.

1. Furman Gennady
Borysovych
Education:
- Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State Pedagogical Institute, qualification
“Teacher of English and German ”, 1992
- retraining course for English teachers at Beit-Berl College, Israel,
2002
Teaching experience:
19 years, used to teach German and Hebrew
Personal achievements:
The teacher’s students have been active participants and winners of
English Olympiads and contests.

2. The teacher’s been working on two problems:
“Teaching heterogeneous classes”
and
“Forming socio-cultural competence
through extra-curricular activities”

3. Problem 1
Teaching heterogeneous classes
may be
one of the biggest challenges
facing an English teacher.

4. How to teach heterogeneous classes ?
Individualization is an option
which allows pupils to work
according to their own level
and interests.

5. Individualizaion can be
implemented by means of:
 work cards
 extensive reading
 dialogue journals

6. Work Cards should include:
 a form which indicates what kind of work the
pupil has been doing and at what level;
 the corrected column that refers to whether
the pupil has corrected the work;
 an answer key allows the teacher to check if
the pupil is progressing;
 the comments column can be used both by
the teacher and the pupil for any remarks.

7. Extensive reading allows each pupil to choose
a book at his own level. The pupils should
read for pleasure. It will give them a feeling
of satisfaction. There should be a wide
variety of books to choose from.
Dialogue Journals can give the pupils an
opportunity to freely express themselves.

8. The advantages in teaching
heterogeneous classes:
• variety of different backgrounds. Pupils can
benefit from different interests, cultural
backgrounds and world knowledge resulting in
more dynamic classroom interaction.
• motivation as both the weak and average
pupils are motivated to try and improve their
knowledge of English because of the input of
the stronger pupils.

9. Problem 2 “No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive”.
Mahatma Gandhi
Communicative competence
socio-
cultural
competence
linguistic
competence
pragmatic
competence

10. • English contests
Extra-
curricular
activities
English contests
international
programmes
olympiads intellectual games
the English language week
“Debates”
English speaking club
“MAN”

11. Sociocultural competence
 furthers the connection of theoretical knowledge with
practical skills and strategies of behavior
 enables to understand the context in which the
language is used by native speakers and choose
language forms to achieve a desired communicative
effect.
 anticipates the knowledge of another culture, respect
and tolerance towards others.

12. Thank you
for your attention!