The ministry of higner and secondary specialized education of the republic of uzbekistan urgench state university

Listening materials and accompanying exercises

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Listening tasks appeared in every unit of the textbooks and seemed to serve 
as starting points of the following sections which the targeted items in vocabulary 
made up the contents of the listening materials. The activities aim to pre-teach 
students new vocabulary that occurs in the listening materials. The listening 
activities are integrated into the section named “Skills” which has only two 
activities. These activities develop micro-skills such as listening for general 
understanding, listening for specific information and take the form of multiple 
choice questions, matching exercises, gap-fill, or True/False questions. Listening 
activities are also found in other sections: ‘Writing’, ‘Across the Curriculum’, 
which aim to develop micro-skills such as listening for general understanding and 
specific information. 
Writing exercises 
Each module, except from the introductory one, involves writing skills. A 
brief look at the Writing section shows that it normally begins with some 
preparation work in which students are required to work on models or generate 
ideas. Then, they are asked to complete the model in the textbook with the phrases 
provided. In the last activity students are asked to write a short essay, emails etc. 
The texts students are required to produce are mainly personal. 
As for the topics and forms of writing, since the module 2 is related with 
natural phenomena, students are required to write an email about an accident or to 
describe a survival story to their friends. Module 3 it deals with experiences 
(sports, holidays), students are required to write a short article about a holiday (ex. 
8 p.39) or an email from abroad (ex.4 p.43). To sum up, the textbook offers a great 
variety of writing exercises.