The article deals with the issues of the typology of foreign language lessons. Various approaches to select the criteria for the classification of lessons proposed by Russian specialists in teaching are described in the article. The author analyses the types and models of foreign language lessonsproposed by foreign researchers.It is proved that a communicative orientation, which is reflected in the nature and content of the exercises and communicative tasks, brings together all types of foreign language lessons.

The category of students is represented by the indigenous people of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) that influenced the choice of the organizational and didactic conditions of development of educational independence of students when learning a foreign language in a non-linguistic higher school.

The article deals with the algorithm of the work with TED talks in the process of learning English. The basic criteria for video selection with consideration of the language level of the students are described in the article. The tasks that accompany pre-demonstration, demonstration and post-demonstration stages of the educational process by means of TED talks are under consideration. It is proved that this resource contributes to the harmonious development of future specialists.

The article represents the results of empirical research of characteristics of communicative activity of teenagers at German language lessons conducted by teachers with authoritarian and democratic supervision styles: sociability, communicative self-control, tolerance to communicative uncertainty, conformity, focus on avoiding failures, aspiration to the status growth.

The article deals with the principles, methods and techniques of formation of educational and cognitive competence of students of foreign (French) language at three stages: algorithmic, heuristic and creative.

The modern condition of the music culture, associated with the transfer of music works to the status of media information, emphasizes the issue ofthe specific nature of art and the opposition of art and “non-art”. This issue is of special importance in the process of selection of the musical material offered by a teacher to modern schoolchildren at music lessons and in extracurricular musical activities, in accordance with the criteria of true art. The grounds for understanding of these criteria are philosophical and aesthetic concepts of the past, in particular in the theory of R.G. Collingwood.

The article deals with the conditions of the formation of music and dramaticculture of a music teacher in the process of active and creative performingand creative activities providing valuable attitude to the world, harmonization of emotional and communicative spheres of personality, development of the capacity for active aesthetic transformation of reality and self-realization of a personality.

The article deals with the most effective ways of training of music teachers at higher schools, systematization and refinement of the pedagogical principles which are the grounds for training of future professionals, with the purpose of development of the creative potential of future teachers, as well as the development of readiness for instrumental music performance as an integral part of his professional activity.

The article deals with the issues of future teacher’s personality formation in the aspect of development of the positive attitude to the profession. It represents the methodological basis for the necessity of including the pedagogical artistry in the process of formation of the interest to the profession. The teaching artistry is under consideration in terms of the instrumental and performing training of a future music teacher at a higher school.

The article deals with various approaches to solving the problem of national identity formation of junior schoolchildren in terms of general music education, describes the potential of the ethnographic approach to the study of folklore, Russian classical secular and religious music.

The article deals with the methodological approaches in the study of the history of the youth amateur theatre. The author analyses the issue of establishment and development of the forms and methods of the drama work with children and teenagers from the point of history and culture development. The phenomenological, socio-cultural and anthropological approaches are under consideration.

The article deals with the key structural elements of the management cycle of design and implementation of the competence-oriented educational programs inhigher schools. The stages of administrative activities of the subjects of this cycle are described. The contents of the functions of quality management in the design and implementation of the educational programs at higher schools are characterized in the article.

The article deals with the issue of formation of the scientific outlook of students. The authors identify and describe the conditions and means of formation of the scientific outlook - the problematic situations of the ideological nature. The results showing the effectiveness of such situations are under consideration.

The article deals with the methodological methods applied in the elective course. These methods make it possible to use the learning materials on the basics of atomic and nuclear physics in solving ecologically oriented tasks,which helps to overcome fragmentation in the study of nuclear physics in high school and optimize the process of formation of ecological culture of high school students.

The article deals with various approaches to the description of the characteristics of the case method. The characteristics and structure of the subject-oriented case studies are under consideration. The structure of the subject case in informaticsis described.

The article deals with the research results based on the methodology of the feasibility and efficacy of the method of mind maps in correctional educational institutions that have some specific characteristics and learning difficulties of the students. The prospects and efficacy of its application in the educational process are proved. It is shown that the mind map methodis equally well suited for teaching different age groups of children in various disciplines.

The article deals with the exercises that aim to improve physical readiness of 11-12 year-old badminton players. The relevance of the proposed set of exercises to improve the quality of badminton playing is under consideration in the article.

The article aims to formulate (by the example of the work by R. Kipling) the distinctive characteristics of an“iconic language personality” as the ideal bearer of the cultural and speech competence, “classic”, “master of speech”, “arbitrator and normalizer of language”, whose work contributes to its progressive development at a certain historical stage in a particular country and the global linguistic culture in general.

The article deals with the potential of phraseological units in the creation of humorous statements by means of language pun. The research is based on the fiction about doctors. The analysis identifies such ways to use phraseological units as literalness, change in syntactic function, substitution of the component,meaning broadening, etc.

The article deals with the research results concerning the component structure of the concept “mean act” in the Russian lexicography and discourse. The group of lexemes representing the concept in the Russian language is identified. The conceptual, figurative and value components of the concept “mean act” are found out. The degree of actualization of the basic components of the concept in language and speech is analyzed.

The article deals with the slang lexicon of the Pskov youth. The modern slang material is analyzed on the background vocabulary materials of the 2006. Special attention is paid to the informal urban toponyms and anthroponyms- individual and collective nicknames. The causes of deactualizationof some nominative units are described;the new objects of the category of slang and ways of formation of new regional slang words are represented in the article.

This article deals with theways of transmission of the hypothetical reality in the English language analytical articles.The purpose of this article is to show how an assumption in analytical newspaper articles can be verbalized bythe linguistic devices with the meaning of hypotheses. The author develops the thesis that the linguistic devicesform its general modality. The research proves that the means of hypothesis representation are heterogeneous in their linguistic expression and they correspond both to one word and sentenceas a whole or its part. The analysis of the linguistic material shows that the hypothetical reality in the analytical articles is an unconventional interpretation of reality by the author.

The article deals with the nominative field of the concept “beauty”, its macrostructure, the hierarchy of the cognitive characteristics. The universal and individual author’s signs of the concept represented in the literary text are under consideration.

This article deals with the concept “deception” as implemented in the work by J. Fowles“The Magus”. The concept is considered in three aspects: from the position of the subject of deception, the object of the deception and the moral component of deception. The author makes the conclusion about the contradictory nature of deception, and the inevitability of lies not only in all spheres of activities of a certain linguistic culture, but throughout the world.

The article deals with the allusive anthroponyms in the novels by modern Northern Irish writers. The author emphasizes the importance of the vertical context for understanding of the subjects of the novels - the Northern Ireland conflict (the Troubles). The analysis proves that the anthroponymscorelate the artistic space of the novels and the historical facts and mythology of Ireland,as well as reveal the main theme of the works -the senselessness of a fratricidal confrontation.

The article deals with the metaphor as the means of implementationof the emotional and evaluative function of a headline. The metaphors in the headlines of economic texts of the German magazine “Der Spiegel”express evaluation and cause the recipient’s emotional feedback. Metaphors serve not only to express emotionsbut also to persuade the reader of the justice of the author’s assessment. In this regard, the modern mass media use bright expressive headlines; their expressiveness is achieved by means of metaphors.

The article deals with the dynamics of development of the language world picture from the point of dominance of the English language among other languages, which are on the periphery of the communicative environment, and which are structurally simplified andreduced in functions.

The article deals with similar ideas, motives and images, or the genetic ties between the novels “Moby Dick, or the Whale” by Herman Melville, “Ulysses” by James Joyce and “Chevengur” by Andrei Platonov from the point of view of an interpreter.The comparative characteristics of these three works are represented in the article.

The article deals with the historical songs of Oirats of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region of China, published in the quarterly popular scientific magazine “Xan Tenggri”. Shuna-Batyr and Ubashi Khan, praised in the historical songs,are real people who lived at some certain period of time. The texts of poetic folklore have been translated from the “clear letter”into the modern Russian language.

The article deals with the analysis of the composition and imagery of the dramatic poem “Moonlit Night” by a Yakut poet R. Bagataysky. The authors note that the poem is focused on the main characters and their idea, which is the basis forits compositional structure: the increasing role of monologues, the decrease in the function of dialogue, involvement of the author’s remarks in the narration.

The article deals with the basic stages of formation of the written language in Dagestan and the influence of the Arab Muslim culture on the local literature and culture.

The article deals with the military conflict that took place from 26 January to 4 February 1915 the Suez Canal zone during the First world war, where the Ottoman army under the leadership of Germany moved from southern Palestine in the direction of the Sinai Peninsula in order to attack the Suez canal under the protection of Great Britain. The fighting in the Suez Canal zone was the beginning of the Sinai-Palestine campaign.

The article deals with the analysis of more than seventy photographs from the funds ofZNIWO, thatreflect different aspects of the Battle of Stalingrad: the military heroics, the everyday life of the civilpopulation, the material losses of the city during the war years. The potential and relevance of this type of the audiovisual sources for the preservation of the historical memory and expanding its social framework are under consideration in the article.

The article deals with the policy of the Soviet Union towards the French colonies - Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia - in theirfight for independence in the 1950s.Being unable to establish direct contacts with the Maghreb countries, the Soviet Union used the UN platform to support the national liberation movement of North Africa. The article is based on the analysis of the UN documents, declarations of statesmen of the USSR.