“A Real Success”

“A language is the foundation
of national identity and a means
of international communication.”
Peter the Great

A conference under this title took place on the 4th of March at Lyceum No.1525 which celebrates 15 years of its existence this year. We are proud of the fact that now the conference has the status of a city event.
Every year the conference attracts attention of the best schools of Moscow as well as foreign schools. This time thirteen reports were presented. They covered linguistic and cultural themes. The members of the jury, headed by professor Mark Blokh, expressed the idea that the conference is of a great importance as with the help of a foreign language students are able to exchange different ideas, to learn something new about science and culture, and to promote understanding between peoples all over the world.
This year representatives of the Czech Republic and Germany made interesting reports devoted to the influence of English on Czech, Spanish and German languages. An Indian student talked about India and Russia: their relations, growth, friendship.
All students demonstrated a deep knowledge of English and the topic which they had prepared for the presentation. But only four of them got diplomas.
The first prize was awarded to Bsaksi Fsarma, an 11th grade student from India.
Karina Chescotti, a 10th grade student, got the second prize. She is from Germany.
The third prize winner, Voloshinova Maria, an 11th grade student from Moscow International Gymnasia, made an original report about famous women all over the world under the title “Beauty will save the world?”
The fourth prize winner E. Michaylova, 10th grade student from Lyceum No.525, devoted her work to art. She described Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s life and his religious paintings.
I think it will be interesting to get acquainted with this report which is published here.
We are very glad that the audience participated in the discussion and asked a lot of questions about the topics. The conference was a real success.