Lyubov Arkhipova

The present article is devoted to the issue of teaching dialogue as one of the types of communicative activity, describes approaches to teaching the dialogue pattern existing in the methodology and suggests different types of preparing, conditionally-communicative and communicative exercises for practicing foreign students’ skills and abilities in the process of implementation of communicative intentions.

The article is devoted to the monologue listening as one of the most difficult aspect of speech activity and analyses a new training manual on listening and speaking skills development. This training manual was developed at the chair ‘Russian philology’ of the University for foreign students, learning the Russian language. An audio text and a developed set of tasks are given as an example.

The article presents a set of preparatory drills – from imitation to proper speech making – when working on impersonal sentences in foreign audience at initial stage of teaching. The specified set of exercises contributes to grammar formation necessary to achieve automatization of impersonal constructions use in speech.