About the Contest
You can find photo and video of the previous
Contests on the Contest History page.
Key Dates
Online
Regisration
February 20, 2026 - March 20, 2026
Contest
March 25, 2026 - March 27, 2026
Awards
Ceremony
March 27, 2026
Grammar and vocabulary assignments
Grammar and vocabulary assignments will be available on the web page of the Contest Course on March 25, 2026 from 17:30 till 19:00 Moscow time. You can start working on the tasks any time within this time frame.
Communicative Game
Imagine that your team is part of an international space crew stranded on an alien space station. No one speaks Russian and you don't speak any of their languages. You are all using English as the lingua franca. Your team has to carry out some repair work, with the other team handing you the necessary tools. The only way for you to get the tool is to describe it as accurately as possible.
During the second day of the English language contest, you will be competing against a randomly assigned team from another university. You will get a time slot when you are to connect to a video conferencing platform using the link that we will send to you. You and your opponents will see a set of pictures showing various tools on the screen. The team that gets to play first will receive a message with the number of the object they will have to describe. As soon as the other team guesses the object correctly, a new number will be sent. After 5 minutes, a new set of pictures is shown and the teams swap roles.
Each team has a time limit of 5 minutes. The goal is to describe as many objects as possible to the other team. Each correct guess earns a point for the both teams, so be sure to listen closely! Extra points will be awarded for eloquence, impeccable English and verbal etiquette (1 point for each category). Points will be deducted for using Russian (-1 point) and over-reliance on gesticulation and body language (-1 point).
Communicative game will start on March 26, 2026 from 17:30 Moscow time, link for participants: https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/75059438841694
Критерии оценивания устного тура
Каждая команда получит случайную последовательность из 12 предметов – именно в этом порядке вы будете их описывать для другой команды. Как только противоположная команда назвала номер своей версии (неважно, правильно или нет), вы переходите к следующему предмету в списке. При описании необходимо обращаться к внешнему виду детали, а не ее расположению на экране!
Команда получает по 1 баллу за каждый предмет, который правильно угадала команда противника. В свою очередь, вторая команда также получает по 1 баллу за каждый правильно угаданный предмет. Один предмет – одна попытка ответа.
Дополнительные баллы присуждаются жюри за правильное фонетическое оформление речи (1 балл), разнообразие использованной грамматики (1 балл) и лексики (1 балл). Кроме того могут назначаться штрафные баллы: за переход на русский язык (-1 балл) и за жестикуляцию (-1 балл). Дополнительные и штрафные баллы присуждаются по итогам всего выступления.
Registration for the Contest
In order to register for the Context, you need to visit the following webpage: https://lms.bmstu.ru/. There you should select the desired option as shown below:
Next, fill in the required fields:
After
confirming your registration and logging on, you will be redirected to the homepage: https://lms.bmstu.ru/my/. In order to submit your application to participate in the Contest, you should navigate to its respective course https://lms.bmstu.ru/enrol/index.php?id=79 and click the Enrol me button:
At the moment, the course provides a chance to test your mettle against the tasks taken from the previous Contests.