Exercises aimed at overcoming phonetic difficulties of reception: Listen to following words and raise your hand when you hear a word with the
sound…
Listen to the sentences and raise your hand when you hear an interrogative
(affirmative, negative) sentences;
Listen to the sentence and say how many words it contains;
Divide the word you heard into separate sounds and name them;
State the number of vowels and consonants in the words you hear;
State the numbers of words in the sentence you hear.
Exercises to teach students to overcome grammatical difficulties. Listen to the sentence and name the subject;
Listen to the sentence and say in which the action is used in the past (present,
future);
Listen to the sentence and say how many members of the sentence it contains
Repeat the sentence after the speaker (the sentence is gradually extended);
Listen to the sentence and say in what they differ;
Listen to the sentence several times and write down the new words that appear
each time;
Listen to the sentence and guess the meaning of the new words.
Exercises aimed at overcoming lexical difficulties. Listen to the sentence and try to understand the meaning without paying
attention to the new words;
Listen to the homonymes in sentences and guess their meaning;
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Listen to the synonyms in sentences give their meaning;
Listen to the sentences with polysemantic words and find the shades of their
meaning
Mark the words on the list that are used in the sentences you hear;
Write down the figures you hear etc.
Exercises in listening to connected speech. Divide the passage into sentences.
Say what is missing in the passage you hear.
Listen to a number of sentences two times and say what is missing when you
hear it a second time.
Listen to the sentences written on the card and point out the difference in their
sequence.
Look at the list of names and mark those you hear in the text.
Write down the names you hear in the text.
Write down the traits of character you hear in the text.
Listen to the passage and write down the key words
Listen to the text again retell it using the key words you wrote down.
Exercises to teaching anticipation. Listen to the sentence and made up your own connected with it in meaning.
Listen to the text and say what it is about.
Listen to the passage and choose those that contain the main idea.
Look at the outline of the text and give the title.
Look at the key words and guess the theme of the text.
Listen to the beginning of the text and try to make an outline of what will follow.
Listen to a fragment of the text and find its place in the typed variant.
Look at the sentences and place them in their logical sequence.
Exercises in developing students’ auditive memory, attention, imagination and logical thinking. Listen to two logically connected utterances and repeat them.
Listen to the speech patterns and show the pictures, illustrating their meaning.
Listen to the sentences and do the actions mentioned in them.
Listen to the sentences and arrange them in their logical order.
Learn the dialogue by heart repeating it after the speaker.
Compare the sentences on the card and those pronounced by the speaker.
State their lexical and grammatical differences.
Speech exercises. Listen to the texts different in meaning, pronounced with normal tempo
illustrated with pictures first, then without any pictures and answer the questions.
Listen to the beginning of the story and try to guess what will follow.
Look at the picture, listen to the beginning of the story and try to guess what will
follow.
Listen to the story and retell the part giving in the description of this picture.
Listen to the story and answer the questions
Listen to two stories and say what they have in common and in what they differ.
Listen to the text and give it a title.
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Listen to the text and give its meaning in two-four sentences.
Listen to the dialogue and give its main idea.
Tell about… after listening to the text.