For the first time among all military lyceums and lyceums with intensive military-physical training, which operate in Ukraine, LSL students received certificates of English language proficiency in accordance with NATO standards, which gives great benefits to our pupils.
This will help to become a member of the program for training in higher military educational institutions in the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance. On the release of the Naval Force Commander of the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine vice-Admiral I.O. Voronchenko said: ‘Possession of a foreign language opens up new horizons for everyone who wants to be part of the modern world,’ especially for PWL pupils – future officers, as a modern officer of the Naval Forces of Ukraine should speak English at a high level.

From the very beginning, after the relocation of the VML from Sevastopol to Odessa, the command of the lyceum decided to give increased attention to the study of English as, in a context of significant intensification of international military cooperation and integration processes, the issue of further development and increasing the efficiency of the functioning of language training in the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
This has become a very significant methodological support for teachers and lyceums, which helps to learn more effectively. Also, our school is constantly collaborating with the British book in Odessa and Lingvist, an official distributor of well-known foreign publications such as Cambridge University Press, w.w publications, National Geographic Learning, Collins and others.
The charitable fund ‘Come Alive’, together with the Kyiv Society ‘Your Modern Textbook’, was given to the Naval Lyceum the English textbooks of Ochford, Macmillan (100 sets), and managed to replenish and update the teaching and methodological base of the lyceum.

The teacher of English T. V. Vetlinskaya created an author’s program for the purpose of studying profile specialties on the faculty ‘Naval terminology’, which in the future will help our children to more perfectly communicate on professional marine themes. Many visits to the warships of foreign states, which carry out activities in the port of Odessa, are carried out. Lyceum students of the Naval Forces visited the naval vessels of the Permanent Military Mine Action Group No. 2 (SIVMCMG2) – the Counter-Admiral Chernitsky Naval Forces Navy of Poland, the naval miners of the Duero, the Naval Forces of Spain, the Rottweil of the German Navy and the Naval Alanya Turkey, where they could practice the used naval terminology and communicate with foreign seamen.
At the initiative of the lyceum command at the Naval Lyceum, a Linguaphone office was opened, sponsored by the Black Sea Cross Charity Fund and the Magellan 500 NGO. At the same time, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine for European Integration Igor Dolgov visited the Lyceum, who got acquainted with the educational and material base on studying a foreign language, having communicated with lyceum students, highly appreciated their knowledge of English.

The cooperation of the VML with the Military Academy (Odesa) is conducted, namely, the Department of Foreign Language, whose training program is carried out in accordance with the Concept of Foreign Languages ​​Training in Military Educational Institutions of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, approved by the Order of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine of 01.06.2009 № 267, by the order of the Minister of Defense Ukraine dated May 17, 2010, No. 25 ‘On Approval of the Provision on Foreign Language Courses in the Armed Forces of Ukraine’. With their active support, an experimental group and an intensive English language course under NATO standards were created. For 6 months intensively studied foreign language. 13 groups of high school graduates were involved in this group, 8 of which successfully passed the testing of four types of speech activities (listening, reading, speaking and writing) and received certificates of English language proficiency SMP1.

On this command the lyceum does not stop:
– introducing innovative technologies in the study of English;
– active cooperation with the SP Korolev Zhytomyr Military Institute under the project within the framework of the NATO Science for Peace and Security Program ‘Development and Creation of a Mobile and Distance Learning System’ is underway.
The introduction and testing of mobile distance learning based on educational facilities at VML will provide effective language training for future and active servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in accordance with NATO standards.
Teachers are constantly holding open binary lessons, where the English language is combined with geography, history and the Ukrainian language. A binary lesson is the creativity of two educators, which grows into a student’s creative process. Because studying a problem on the verge of two (or several) sciences is always interesting, this kind of activity is highly motivating.
Along with the educational process, a variety of extra-curricular work on the study of English is conducted: quests, drama performances, poetry contests, festivals are held. Lyceum students take an active part in such activities, which helps to effectively study the language, improve the results, make the subject more interesting, and students more motivated.
From 2018, the best lyceum students will have an opportunity to go to the summer English camp for Ternopil region, where teachers of American colleges and volunteers of language will work with them during a month. Lyceum students will be able to significantly increase their level of language proficiency, as they will constantly be in the English-speaking environment and learn. It is planned to 5-7 lessons daily, various trips, excursions and, of course, entertainment program.
‘Learning English is a step on the way to Europe.’ The lyceum leadership has introduced innovative educational technologies and embodies an integrated approach to learning a foreign language, is doing its best to improve linguistic preparation for more successful mastery of NATO military terminology, provides maximum and continuous training, with continuous monitoring of results in learning a foreign language, as well as from 1 September, 2nd foreign language will be introduced into the curriculum, which will expand the range of opportunities of the lyceum of the Naval Lyceum in the future! It is planned to open another linguaphone and linguaphone test rooms, which will enable to intensify the study of a foreign language according to NATO standards for most of the lyceum students.

Thanks to constant and systematic work, the level of knowledge is improving and to date we have a positive result.
In modern space, English is like air. Without it, you can not imagine a full-fledged life, access to a completely new, knowledge-opportunity, self-development. In fact, this is a powerful tool for our movement to Europe. This is our small but very important prospect. Today, knowledge of English is no longer a tribute to fashion, but a real need.