Катерина

KATERYNA OSTAPENKO
English Teacher & Interpreter

Personal Profile
I am an English teacher and philologist with Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in
Philology. I genuinely enjoy working with people, creating engaging lessons, and
helping students develop their language and communication skills. My academic
[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) background is rooted in linguistic research, specifically focusing on verbalising the
means of the author’s individual style. Passionate about linguistic accuracy and
[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) structured learning, I strive to make educational content natural, engaging, and
easy to understand.
Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Master’s Thesis & Research Publications
EDUCATION
Master’s Thesis:
English Language and Literature and a Second Foreign Language.
Topic: "Verbalising the means of the author’s individual style and the methods of
their translation from English into Ukrainian (on the basis of Erin Morgenstern’s
works)".
Bachelor’s Degree in Philology Published Conference Abstracts:
Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Ukraine Ostapenko, K. O., & Lyutyanska, N. I. (2025). "On the Correlation of the Concepts
'Individual Authorial Style', 'Idiostyle', and 'Idiolect'". In Mohyla Readings – 2025:
09.2020 – 06.2024
Mykolaiv: Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University.

Master’s Degree with Honors
Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Ukraine WORK EXPERIENCE
09.2024 – 12.2025
2025 – 2026
SKILLS Online English Teacher — Online Language School
Delivered individual online English lessons to children, teenagers,
Hard Skills: and adults (primarily focusing on adult learners).
Communicative Language Teaching,
Task-Based Learning, Lexical Prepared students for the Ukrainian national state exam (NMT).
Approach. Taught everyday conversational English for clients living abroad
Designing structured lesson plans and
materials tailored to A1–B1 levels. (USA, Canada, Ireland) as well as Business English.
Diagnosing language gaps and
designing targeted tests. 2022 – 2025
Private Online English Tutor — Freelance (BUKI / Independent)
Soft Skills:
Balancing high conversational Provided one-on-one online instruction for diverse age groups.
engagement with strict adherence to Developed customized grammar, vocabulary, and speaking
structural and timing goals.
Adapting lesson pace to student modules to improve fluency and accuracy.
engagement levels.
Strong written and verbal
communication, time management, CONFERENCES, WEBINARS & CERTIFICATES
and adaptability.
Certificate of Attendance — "Bright Start for Smart Teachers 5.0" (Polyglot Training Centre
/ Cambridge Assessment English, August 28, 2026).
LANGUAGE Webinar Certificate — "How to Use AI to Support Reflection and Autonomy in Teacher
Education" (British Council, speaker Mariana Hidalgo, August 19, 2026).
Webinar Certificate — "How to Teach Vocabulary with Focus" (Polyglot Training Centre &
Pearson, August 19, 2026).
Ukrainian: Native Evadem Project Lecture — "Enlargement and Democracy as External Policies of the EU"

Russian: Native (May 2024).
Translation Practice Lectures — Focus on online platform interpretation, Zoom translation
English: Advanced features, and audio-visual media specifics by Yana Husak and Khrystyna Lytvynenko
(2023–2024).
German: Pre-Intermediate