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Hello!

My name is Ann, I'm 20 years old and I'm studying at BSU. This blog was created to describe my impressions of the course. This is my first blog post, in which I need to answer some questions. First of all, I'll write my opinion about blogs offered at the seminar. The first one can be very useful for those who want to improve their English (especially pronunciation) at least a girl from the video says so and she souns convincing. As stated in the blog's description there are many online courses to learn English, but not so much to improve pronunciation or to study how to speak like native people do in any particular country. Also I really liked that there is an opportunity to try a free short course and due to it you can understand if course suits you. The English language teacher's blog is informative and interesting, but I think this information can be found on the Internet. So let's get to the question 'Is it important for a language teacher to be ICT-competent?' In the modern world computers (in any of their manifestations) replacing 'paper' (books, exercise books, newspapers and so on). I think that modern teachers should follow world trends, strive for better, amount to countries where the level of education is higher and better. I think that modern technologies help in learning the languages, as there is a multifaceted training: you can watch something, listen, read, do it yourself (as we this blog, for example) and nowadays with the assistanсe of modern technologies to do this is easier, so I think that it is important for a language teacher to be ICT-competent.