I have been working as a MFL/EAL teacher in inner London schools since 1989. In 2009 I received a FCOT for my contribution to teaching. Graduated from Derzhavin University, Tambov, Russia with MA Ed. in 1978. Topic of my thesis was “Comparative typology based on E. Hemingway’s novel ‘To Whom the Bell tolls’”. Continued my PG studies in Teesside Polytechnic, Middlesbrough, UK and Durham University. I also taught English in Lycee Professionnel ‘Ile Jeanty’ in France, when I did my one year of Post-to-Post exchange.