Lecture 1: General problems of Foreign Language teaching

Techniques of interactive methods: brainstorm, focused questions, cluster, discussion
The comfortable atmosphere at the lesson helps not only to get knowledge, but to develop the Cognitive activity as well. The most popular and effective Techniques used are:

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  organizer - vanguard,
  
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  focused questions,
  
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  problem questions,
  
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  work in pair,
  
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  concomitant of expectation,
  
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  brainstorm,
  
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  cluster
  
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  critical discussion groups.
  

Organizer - vanguard is a short conversation illustrated by photos or pictures. The teacher gives the Brief content of the topic, introduces the keyword and explains the tasks to the group. The main aimof this technique is to make the students remember the knowledge received before on this topic and prepare them to reconstruct or renovate the previous knowledge.
Focused and problem questions are more effective when they make the students think and look for answer.
Think/ Divide into pairs/ Exchange opinions - is the activity when the teacher offer the students an "open" question, he may write bit on the blackboard. Then the students are given two or three minutes to answer it individually (in written form).
Concomitant of expectation a lot of questions with short answers may be prepared by the teacher with the purpose of establishing the most important aspects of the topic. The students asked to answer these questions individually or in pairs as distinctly as possible. This technique may be done by using tests with the answers: "Yes/No" or "True/False", having listening comprehension of the text or dialogue, listening to the tasks and making "true" or "false".
“Brainstorm” is the working out a great number of ideas on a curtain theme, first, without critics. The main task of the "Brainstorm" is to use the force of a small group for generalization of ideas. “Brainstorm” makes the students tell a lot of ideas, including fantastic extraordinary. The more ideas they have the better is for solving problems. We'd better keep the following rules having the "brainstorm:
a) The more ideas we have, the better, but they shouldn't be evaluated.
b) Any kinds of idea may be said: full freedom of thinking and all sentences are fixed) "catch", "grasp" and develop ideas of the others.