My aim in teaching students the English language is not only explaining to them vocabulary and grammar rules and telling them about literature, art, history, and geography of English-speaking countries. Being flexible and open to the challenges of the modern world, my students also teach me a lot. They react to the changes in society faster and more vividly, and they are aware of everything new. For example, my second-year university students brought up the issue of «healthy eating» and created video tutorials on the subject. They did an amazingly creative and rewarding job.

We were working on the video with a pirate story for an online English competition with a small but enthusiastic team, starring Keith Rowson-Jones – our dear Russian Englishman. You can even hear the school bell ringing, but we managed to create the atmosphere no worse than the director of the movie «Pirates of the Caribbean»!
You too can benefit from this exercise! If you are a teacher, play the video for your school students and practice listening and writing skills – according to the task in the clip description.

If you are a learner of English, enjoy the performance by Keith and try to answer the final, creative question! Send your answers to me via the contact icons on the site!

It was a real adventure! I came up with the idea of holding an online linguistic competition about English theatre for students of the humanities, and I decided to make video questions based on the programme of «University Challenge«.
So the shooting of the videos took place in London’s West End. The questions were recorded by my best friend Anthony Jones who recited excerpts from the wonderful works of English authors, so the tasks themselves have great cultural significance. Someday I will write a collection of funny stories about the backstage of our amateur filming. In the meantime, I invite the visitors of this page to answer our questions from the videos. Send your answers to me via the contact icons on the site!

My fifteen years of teaching at the university’s law faculty were anything but boring! With my law students we discussed a wide range of issues: from death penalty to the legal aspects of human cloning, from breach of privacy to Dr. Kevorkian’s  «humane euthanasia». Oh, those heated debates… it was smoking hot in the classroom! And when we wanted to have some fun, we were solving tricky «criminal» puzzles based on English history, culture, and literature. In this video you can see our incomparable and artistic Russian Englishman Keith Rowson-Jones. Are you up for such a puzzle? Send your answers to me via the contact icons on the site!