Keyword: «language exercises»

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 summarizes the author’s experience of using various tasks aimed at learning and practicing collocations when teaching English to Education majors – future English language teachers. The role of collocations in a language is analyzed, the need for systematic work with collocations in class is accounted for, examples of various exercises and tasks conducted with the Education majors are given and their educative value is analyzed.

The article is devoted to the study by foreign students of such a part of speech as the adverb. Adverbs help in explaining many grammatical phenomena. The authors analyze the principle of presentation of this grammatical material in the preparatory course. As an example, language and speech exercises aimed at the formation of the communicative competence of foreign military personnel are given.

The article is devoted to the issues of professionally oriented teaching of the Russian language to foreign military personnel at the preparatory course. As an example, a variant of working with a text on specialization is given, as well as language and speech exercises aimed at forming the communicative competence of foreign military personnel.