Karmanova G.V.

A modern university teacher is the driving force of the higher education development. The teacher prepares competitive specialists for a rapidly changing society and constantly emerging new challenges in any production area. The article examines the main communicative competencies that a modern teacher of higher education possesses: educational, scientific, innovative. The current problems of teaching foreign languages during the period of distance work are considered.

The article considers an actual problem of adequate translation of German proverbs and sayings into Russian, taking proverbs and sayings about pets as an example. This material was taken from German textbooks for agricultural universities, dictionaries, and Internet resources. Analysis of these lexical units semantics in German language was carried out and possible difficulties in translating them into Russian were revealed.