Distance learning expands borders! Recently, students of the Department of International Relations had the opportunity to talk to Tom Barton, principal of the London School of English in Lviv, certified English teacher at Cambridge CELTA and Cambridge DELTA, Pearson Test of English examiner. For most of our students, this was their first experience of communicating with a native speaker. Mr. Tom created a relaxed and friendly atmosphere of conversation, and his young interlocutors showed a good level of language competence by asking the guest a series of questions, the answers to which forced them to look at familiar things from a different angle.