Учебно-методический комплекс по дисциплине «М етодика преподавания английского языка» специальности 050303 «Иностранный язык»

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G reat ESL( ESL is "English as Second Language)"
Listening Activities & Games
Listening makes up one o f the four core areas o f language: reading, writing, speaking and 
listening.
If our students’ listening isn’t good enough then they are m issing out on a quarter o f their 
language ability!
Listening is needed in order to do things such as watching movies, listening to music and having 
conversations.
The problem is that this skill can easily become underdeveloped. Visual tasks such as reading 
and writing may seem more comfortable and so students may prefer to give these more time.
While this may be easier in the short run it means that those skills become a lot stronger but their 
listening gets left in the dirt.
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Technical aids: films, cartoons, songs
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Tongue twisters
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Proverbs 
Poems
By teaching aids we mean various devices which can help the foreign language teacher in 
presenting linguistic material to his/her pupils and fixing it in their memory, in testing pupils’

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knowledge o f words, phrases and grammar items, their habits and skills in using them. Teaching 
aids which are at teachers’ disposal contemporary schools may be grouped into:
a) Non-mechanical aids
b) M echanical aids
Non-mechanical 
aid sare: a blackboard is perhaps the most useful o f visual aids andthe majority 
o f teachers would feel hammered in a classroom which did not have one. It is the oldest aid in 
classroom; the teacher turns to the blackboard whenever he needs to write something while 
explaining some new linguistic material to his pupil
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How to teach vocabulary:
Exercises, activities and games
4. How to Teach Vocabulary in School.
1. The Importance o f Teaching V ocabulary, its role (place) and syllabus
Requirements.
Teaching Vocabulary is the base o f language learning. To know a 
language means to m aster its structure and words. Thus, vocabulary in 
one o f the aspects o f the language to be taught in schools. Vocabulary is 
the total o f words and word combinations to e taught and to be learnt.
The problem is what words and idioms pupils should retain. It is 
impossible to assimilate language skills (speaking, reading, writing, 
listening) w ithout the knowledge o f Vocabulary.
Speech is impossible w ithout vocabulary items. Listening com prehension in English is only 
possible when a certain am ount o f vocabulary is learnt. The m eaning o f 
speech remains abstract, no information obtained if the pupils don not 
know vocabulary.