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Welcome… …to the website of the English Department, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University. We hope that here you will find useful up-to-date information on the latest and oncoming events at the department, the entrance test for freshers as well as a wealth of additional educational material that will be of great asset in your studies during the term. Also, we hope that our website will make the learning of the English language at University inspirational and exciting! With our best wishes for a successful academic year, English Department Team
Department News
9 May 2025 We extend our heartfelt congratulations on Victory Day to our colleagues and students. Today we bow our heads in memory of millions of fallen soldiers and civilians and express our deepest gratitude to veterans for their immortal heroic deeds, courage and self-sacrifice. We wish everyone peace, unity and wellbeing! Happy Victory Day! 6 February 2025
First-year students embarking on English language studies in the spring semester are to take the placement test according to the following schedule:
The speakers of the prize-winning talks at the XIV Annual Conference on Mechanics and Mathematics for third-year students may receive their certificates in Room 454 from 14:00 to 16:00 on Monday, the 23rd of December.
18 December 2024 The XIV Annual Conference on Mechanics and Mathematics for Third-Year Students was held at the Department of the English Language on December 11, 2024. The speakers made presentations on their current scientific research at the faculty. The expert panel consisting of the English department lecturers and faculty professors with expertise in mathematics or mechanics assessed the students' level of proficiency in English as well as the knowledge of the subject of their study and chose the best speakers. We thank all the participants for their interesting talks and hope they will benefit from this useful experience in the future!
22 October 2024 The XIV Annual Student Conference on Mechanics and Mathematics for third-year students of the faculty will be held at the Department of the English Language on December 11, 2024. The conference will focus on the subjects of students' course papers and their research projects at the faculty. Abstracts of the talks are invited through the electronic application system at https://conf.msu.ru/rus/event/9398/ before 17:00 on December 2, 2024. Please note the layout requirements for the abstract. The language of the conference is English. For more information, please, contact the Department of the English Language.
22 October 2024 III Academic Conference "Topical Issues of the Theory and Practice of English" On November 1, 2024, the English department hosts the third academic conference on current issues of the theory and practice of the English language. Lecturers are encouraged to engage in discussions on a wide range of questions relating to the given subject. Submission deadline for applications and abstracts: October 25, 2024 (inclusive). Contact email: okoretskaya@gmail.com. Working languages: Russian and English. Venue: Moscow, Leninskie Gory, 1, 2nd Humanities Building, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, English Department, room 428.
7 October 2024 An exhibition dedicated to the work of the great Russian artist I. K. Aivazovsky has opened at the department. The exhibition presents reproductions of the artist's legendary paintings: «The brig "Mercury" after the victory over two Turkish ships meets with the Russian squadron» (1848), «Black Sea Fleet in Feodosia» (1890), «The storm at Cape Aya» (1875) and «Sea View. Storm on the sea» (1878). To view the exhibition, you need to contact a lead English language teacher.
27 February 2023 The resit of the English Language Exam is on the 17th of March, 2023 (Friday, 16:45). The students who did not receive a mark for the abstract of the scientific article (in English) recommended by their scientific supervisor should submit it to their third-year English teacher no later than the 13th of March, 2023. The recommended article should be at least 30 pages long. Also, at the exam the students are expected to give a 10-15-minute talk based on the article they have read. To prepare for the presentation, they may refer to the methodological manual "A Practical Guide to Giving a Talk on Mathematics" by L.S. Karpova. Finally, students will have to demonstrate their reading and translating skills in the field of their studies and hold a conversation on one of the 13 exam topics of General English.
11 February 2023 The first-year students who did not take the placement test on the 7th and the 9th of February are requested to do it at 16:45 on Monday, the 13th of February (Rooms 438, 439 in the 2nd GUM). On Monday, the 13th of February, these students may join the English groups of A.A. Savchenko, M.V. Oberyukhtina, A.S. Matveeva and O.V. Fufaeva at 9:00, 10:45 and 13:15. After taking the test, they will be assigned to a group with a corresponding level of the English language.
11 February 2023 The speakers of the prize-winning talks at the XII Annual Conference on Mechanics and Mathematics for third-year students may receive their certificates at the English Department (Room 441, the 2nd GUM) at 16:45 on Monday, the 13th of February, and Tuesday, the 14th of February.
9 February 2023 The first-year students who have not taken the placement test are to contact Maria Viktorovna Oberyukhtina for more information at maria.oberyukhtina@math.msu.ru.
5 February 2023 First-year students embarking on English language studies in the spring semester are to take the placement test in their first English class early in February. The test is aimed at assessing a student's level of English and will help us form English groups according to students' results. Mind please that every student has to do the test on his/her own without relying on his/her colleagues' help. Otherwise they stand a chance of becoming a member of a group with either a too low or too high level of English.
5 January 2023 We are delighted to announce that the XII Annual Conference on Mechanics and Mathematics for Third-Year Students was held at the Department of the English Language on 7 December, 2022. According to tradition, the speakers gave talks on the research they are involved in at the Faculty and had a golden opportunity to discuss the problems they are currently working on with the audience. Prize-winning talks were supported by the English Department. Hopefully, the tradition will continue and future generations of students will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to participate in a scientific discussion and practise their public speaking skills in English. A heartfelt thank you to all those who took part in the conference! Congratulations to our winners! Remember to take your certificates at the English Department!
29 November 2022 The list of the speakers invited to the XII Annual Conference on Mechanics and Mathematics for Third-Year Students, which is to be held on the 7th of December, 2022 (3:00 p.m.) is available at the Department of the English Language. Mind please that a speaking length of each talk at the Conference has to be 10-15 minutes. Reading talks is not allowed. Speaking only. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to send them to daria.chembach@math.msu.ru.
10 December 2019 We are delighted to announce that Xth Annual Conference for Students was held at the Department of the English Language on 9 December, 2019. According to tradition, the speakers gave talks on the research they are involved in at the faculty and discussed them with the audience. Prize-winning presentations were supported by the department. Hopefully, the tradition will continue and future generations of students will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to participate in a scientific discussion and practise their public speaking skills. A heartfelt thank you to all those who took part in the conference! Congratulations to our winners! Remember to take your certificates!
On Quoting Shakespeare If you cannot understand my argument, and declare “It's Greek to me”, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you claim to be more sinned against than sinning, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you recall your salad days, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you act more in sorrow than in anger; if your wish is farther to the thought; if your lost property has vanished into thin air, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you have ever refused to budge an inch or suffered from green-eyed jealousy, if you have played fast and loose, if you have been tongue-tied, a tower of strength, hoodwinked or in a pickle, if you have knitted your brows, made a virtue of necessity, insisted on fair play, slept not one wink, stood on ceremony, danced attendance (on your lord and master), laughed yourself into stitches, had short shrift, cold comfort or too much of a good thing, if you have seen better days or lived in a fool's paradise - why, be that as it may, the more fool you , for it is a foregone conclusion that you are (as good luck would have it) quoting Shakespeare; if you think it is early days and clear out bag and baggage, if you think it is high time and that that is the long and short of it, if you believe that the game is up and that truth will out even if it involves your own flesh and blood, if you lie low till the crack of doom because you suspect foul play, if you have your teeth set on edge (at one fell swoop) without rhyme or reason, then - to give the devil his due - if the truth were known (for surely you have a tongue in your head) you are quoting Shakespeare; even if you bid me good riddance and send me packing, if you wish I was dead as a door-nail, if you think I am an eyesore, a laughing stock, the devil incarnate, a stony-hearted villain, bloody-minded or a blinking idiot, then - by Jove! O Lord! Tut! Tut! For goodness' sake! What the dickens! But me no buts! - it is all one to me, for you are quoting Shakespeare. Bernard Levin
9 November 2019
The Xth Annual Conference for third-year students will be held at the Department of the English Language on Monday 9th December, 2019. Speakers are invited to give talks on the research they are involved in at the faculty and discuss them with the audience. Authors should submit abstracts (up to 150 words) signed by their English teachers. It is not appropriate to hand in abstracts that are identical to already existing publications. The deadline for applications is 17:00 Monday 25th November, 2019. The List of Speakers at the conference will be available on the board of the Department on Thursday 5th December, 2019
10 December 2017
We are delighted to announce that VIII Annual Conference for Students was held at the Department of the English Language on 4 December, 2017. According to tradition, the speakers presented reports on the research they are involved in at the faculty and discussed it with the audience. Prize-winning presentations have been supported by the department. Hopefully, the tradition will continue and future generations of students will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to participate in a scientific discussion and practise their public speaking skills. A heartfelt thank you to all those who took part in the conference! Congratulations to our winners! Remember to take your certificates at our department on 15 December 2017.
18 April 2011
We are delighted to announce that I Annual Conference for Students dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Russian polymath M.V. Lomonosov was held at the Department of the English Language. Participants included first-year and second-year students. Details...
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