Keyword: «authentic texts»

This article describes how teachers can use authentic texts for learning verb tense forms in English. Researches and teaching practice show that foreign language learners understand tense forms relatively quickly, but it is much more difficult for them to comprehend relations between verb form, aspect, and tense in the grammar of the studied language. The use of authentic texts in learning verb tenses is not just a means of giving the grammar a semantic content, but it also helps students to understand relations between the verb form and its meaning and use. The paper shows a brief analysis of grammatical tenses use on the example of various texts about railway transport. There are assignments after each text, worked out to develop students' abilities to recognize and differentiate features of semantic content and use of English verbs grammatical tenses.

The article concerns the issue of teaching senior pupils to read at the English lessons. The article describes the results of a survey of a pilot group of students and Ryazan teachers to collect data about peculiarities of teaching senior pupils to read authentic English texts.

The article touches upon the issue of forming communicative competence while working with authentic texts. The author touches upon the problem of formation of communicative competence of schoolchildren, paying special attention to the possibility of using adapted authentic texts.

The article touches upon the issue of forming communicative competence while working with authentic texts. The author analyzes the process of forming communicative competence of schoolchildren, paying special attention to the possibility of using adapted authentic texts.

The article describes reading as a type of speech activity and basis of the lexical approach of learning foreign languages, particularly, studying lexical units of certain theme (thematic vocabulary). The study is revealed on the example of the book «Catch Me If You Can» by the American author Frank Abagnale.