British Council Russia
The VKontakte community, which should not be deprived of attention, even if you will not find funny pictures and black humor in it. The British Council is an educational and, importantly, non-profit organization. Therefore, they will not convince you to buy something, subscribe, or purchase, but they will tell you about the most interesting news in the world of the English language.
In addition, among the materials you will also find many interesting things about Great Britain, the lifestyle of overseas residents, interests, trends, hobbies and events. Where the entire pavilion of Hogwarts Castle was opened and when the Queen of England’s birthday is, what free online English courses start on the British Council website, where you can watch films in English - British Council Russia will tell you. Subscribe!
Bookmark: 10 useful VKontakte groups for an English teacher
We suggest diluting your VK feed with useful communities that will become sources of professional inspiration, useful materials for work, and answers to important questions.
If you still haven't subscribed to these 10 communities, this needs to be fixed urgently:
We Teach English (for teachers)
From a group where several teachers shared useful materials and lesson ideas with each other, We Teach English over the course of several years has grown into the largest VKontakte community for English teachers.
Now it’s worth subscribing to this group not even for the worksheets - it’s a full-fledged forum for teachers, where everyone can discuss any professional problem with colleagues; you just need to leave a question of interest in the suggested community posts.
What's useful? Communication with colleagues, ideas for lessons, educational streams.
Read about the history of the creation of the community in our interview with its creator Irina Botnar.
About English – Community of Creative Teachers
A community for teachers who do not tolerate boring and monotonous lessons. Here you will find everything you need for creative and memorable lessons - games, templates, handouts and fresh ideas that will definitely impress students.
In addition, there are tips for properly organizing a class and working with different groups of students, an analysis of various teaching techniques, tips on methods and techniques that help take a teacher’s professional skills to a new level.
By the way, the creator of the Pro English Katerina Stashevskaya specializes in working with young learners. So anyone who has any questions on this topic is required to subscribe!
What's useful? Ideas for lessons, ready-made materials, methodological recommendations.
English Step By Step ( For teachers & learners)
English Step By Step —
This is a database of electronic materials - textbooks, audio and video recordings for learning English. Every day, an average of 5-7 posts are published in the community with a variety of textbooks, worksheets, and lesson ideas.
To truly appreciate the group, we recommend starting to get acquainted with it from the menu - there you can evaluate the volume of the resource and find useful materials for your lessons on any topic.
What's useful? Electronic materials, worksheets, lesson ideas.
English Worksheets For ESL Teachers
The name of the group speaks for itself - it is a collection of useful materials, so to speak, ready for use. You can save literally every post for yourself, print the attachment and use it in your next lesson.
In general, this is a real find for those who are not ready to spend hours on a long search for handouts and ideas for lessons. You just need to subscribe once and everything will be at your fingertips.
What's useful? Worksheets, teaching materials, games, lesson ideas.
English meccano: construct your lessons
We give you materials, you construct your ideal lesson from them - this is exactly the principle on which the English meccano . Why is it worth subscribing? Definitely for the sake of interesting and common ideas for lessons, unusual language games and powerful professional motivation for English teachers.
As a bonus, the group launched the “English in Kindergarten” project (search using the hashtag #enkindergarten), which publishes practical advice for teachers who teach English to the youngest.
What's useful? Ideas for lessons, educational materials, atypical games.
English teacher. English teacher
Personal group of teacher Ekaterina Stukun, who shares her findings and ideas for teaching English lessons with colleagues. True, this is not the only thing that attracts subscribers to the group. Ekaterina personally answers the most interesting questions from readers and regularly brings up for discussion problems familiar to every teacher.
What’s captivating is that Ekaterina doesn’t talk about her experience one-sidedly—here you will learn about both the ups and downs. She also regularly conducts streams where she and her readers discuss useful methodological literature. Each of her ideas is a godsend for English teachers, so highly recommend!
What's useful? Methodological recommendations, ideas for lessons, educational streams, literature for English teachers.
Proactive teacher
If you have ever felt a lack of inspiration, signs of emotional burnout, or loss of interest in your work, you need to read The Proactive Educator .
For what? This group is dedicated not so much to work as to the life of a teacher. Community creator Anna Aronshtam helps teachers find inspiration in simple things, identify and solve professional and personal problems and not push themselves into the background!
In general, a group for the soul. For the soul of a true teacher.
What's useful? Professional help and support, psychology, humor.
EnglishMANnia. Read Books and Teach.
A cozy community for book-loving teachers. The author of the community, Anna Trofimova, leads the group in the format of a personal blog, where she shares interesting ideas for lessons and regularly writes about opportunities for professional development of teachers.
The central topic of the blog is, of course, books. Here you will find reading recommendations, participate in discussions, and learn how to use books to benefit your lessons.
What's useful? Teaching guidelines, lesson ideas, book recommendations, ideas for professional development.
English Seriously | About English seriously
For serious conversations about English, we recommend checking out the English Seriously . This is the personal blog of teacher Irina Grinko - a person who is inspired by English and inspires others.
English Seriously is a treasure trove of useful materials and resources for English teachers. Irina understands each of the proposed resources herself and writes detailed reviews on them, telling how to use them in practice. Anyone who is looking for new ideas for lessons should subscribe!
What's useful? Analysis of resources and materials for English lessons, ideas for lessons.
British Council
We doubt that you have not heard of the British Council, but still. The British Council also has a community on VKontakte, so if you don’t have time to monitor its website, we recommend subscribing. Then all notifications about new courses, webinars and useful materials for teachers and students will come directly to your feed.
What's useful? Information about webinars for teachers, methods, ideas for lessons.
Well, taking advantage of the situation, let us remind you that #Teachaholic is also on VKontakte.
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The dude knows everything about slang and the dude is ready to help you deal with difficult phrases of English-American-street-unknown origin. You offer news with a phrase for which you don’t know the translation - community subscribers all over the world translate it and joke about each other’s comments, trying to show who has actually already achieved Advanced level zen.
If you no longer need to wait for someone to take pity and write a translation of the phrase, congratulations, at least you have the Pre-Intermediate level. Subscribe!
From English to Russian
On the computer
To change the language in VK on your computer, just go to the social network settings. You can do this in the following way:
- Open the vk.com link in the browser and click on the arrow at the top of the screen and select “Settings».
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will find the section “Language" To the right of it, click “ Change"and change the language to Russian.
- Ready! Now the entire language on the VKontakte network has been changed to Russian.
On Android
If on a computer you can change the VK language through the page, then on a phone this can only be done through the device settings themselves. Let's take a closer look at how to do this next.
- Pull out the curtain on the phone from the top and click on the gear to go to settings.
- Scroll down and open the section “General management».
- Then we go to "Language and input».
- In the window that appears, go to the next section called “Language».
- At the end, select the Russian language. After this procedure, all applications installed on Android devices will return to the Russian interface.
On iPhone
On the iPhone, change the language in the settings so that it changes in VK.
- On the main screen, open the menu “Settings».
- Next, go to the section “General».
- In the window that appears, select “Language & Region».
- We change the language to Russian. After this, you can return to VK and check what language is installed there. The entire interface should change to Russian.
Travelers became the second audience
In general, finding travelers on VKontakte was not particularly difficult. Their results were also quite good.
To do this, I took public pages for travelers + setting up the “Travelers” advertising account.
The results were as follows:
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Changing the first and last name on VKontakte from your phone
This method is the simplest in terms of technique, but the most labor-intensive due to the intervention of moderators. So, the sequence of actions:
- go to your page through the mobile application;
- find the “Settings” section and select “Edit”;
- we change personal data to those that we want to receive;
- indicate the reason for the change of personal data in the appropriate column (official change of first or last name);
- save changes;
- We are waiting for the administrator's response.
As you can see, the procedure for changing personal data is quite complicated. Despite the real reasons given, the administration often refuses to change the user’s personal data. But there are still a number of additional extensions and applications that make this task easier for us. After studying all the presented methods, the user will definitely find a suitable option for himself!
In conclusion, pay attention to several ways to delete a message on the VKontakte social network from your interlocutor.
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The fourth audience is employees of international companies
I note that finding such leads is quite difficult. If a person works in an international company, then it is not a fact that he needs a language. Perhaps he is a simple accountant or security guard, but his status says that he works for Microsoft.
Therefore, we had to focus on young people and international consulting companies. Typically, young people are the most motivated clients of foreign language courses. And if they also want to make an international career, then they need to be taken lukewarm.
The results are almost 2 times better than those stated in the KPI. Not bad. But there is one unpleasant nuance. This audience is extremely small.
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The third audience that has worked well is various emigrants
There are many people who play Green Card, go to work or just live in English-speaking countries. And there are quite a lot of such people.
As you can see from the results, people quite willingly signed up to learn the language.
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