The two main variants of modern English are American and British. Classical British English is more complex, more correct, and includes the need to be perfectly familiar with all the tenses, articles, and so on. Knowledge of сlassical British English will have its advantages when working or studying in the UK (you can also get a job teaching British in thousands of different schools).
The main goals of the Center are to help university students master the English language and British culture. The Centre exists as a unit that organizes cultural and educational events for the students of the faculty. During the last years it is worth mentioning the performances in which the students of the faculty took part. They were devoted to the history and culture of English-speaking countries.
New technologies affect all spheres of society, including educational activities. Language laboratories were organized to exercise the skills and abilities of speech activity. They fulfill several basic functions:
educational;
training;
communicative;
controlling-corrective;
informative;
function of controlling students’ learning actions.
Here students can form and improve articulation and rhythmic-intonation skills, reading skills, listening skills, lexical and grammatical skills of speaking, develop and control speech skills of oral speech (monologic/dialogic), listening comprehension, assimilation of lexical material.
The linguaphone room occupies a special place in the study of a foreign language. Its advantages in comparison with other means of teaching are: a variety of different modes of organizational forms of work, with its help it is possible to manage cognitive activity both at the stage of formation of skills and skills, and at the stage of control and evaluation of students’ knowledge.