Communicative skills

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Objective:
The objective of language teaching at school is
to provide students with the opportunity to develop their
language and communicative skills. Doing so enables them
to follow international developments in their own fields
and to function with ease in any communicative situation
required for their careers. The aim being to develop the
students` intercultural understanding. A further objective
is for students to continue developing their language skills
after they have finished studying.

FOCUS OF RESEARCH:
To explore the need for the development of communicative skills in written and spoken English lessons.

PRACTICAL MEANING:
The meaning of communicative skills is being taken very seriously at school. With good communicative skills will come the encouragement, understanding, motivation, as well as training your students need in achieving their desired results.
For most students, the meaning of communicative skills is an individual ability to be proficient in the use of a language both in oral and written forms. A person`s communicative skills also become the most important asset that will aid him or her on the road to success in life.

Components that can reproduce communicative models:
The process of studying interactions in
the group: -to use various schemes and tables;
-to use various types of reading and listening;
-to develop written language;
- to train to make dialogues.
To use active methods of studying :
-projects` methods;
-work with Computer Technology.
Problematic exercises:
-summary reports;
-projects;
-games;
- presentation;
- tests

INTERACTIVE METHODS:
Chain drills
Discussion
Debates
Project work
Microphone
Jigsaw
Aquarium
Pairs work
Role playing
Group work

THE TYPES OF EXERCISES:
Complete the sentences.
1. St. Paul’s Cathedral was first built in the ____________.
2. The original building was burnt down in _________.
3. It was burnt down ___________ times in its history.
4. Sir Christopher Wren began to build the cathedral in ______________.
5. It took him _______ years.
35
1087
7th century
1675
3

Match the sights with their names
Buckingham Palace
The Tower of London The British Museum
The Houses of Parliament
Tower Bridge

Unscramble the words:
f a l r a g a t r e q u s a r
Trafalgar Square
n a t i o l a n l r y l e g a
National Gallery
w o r t e d e g i b r
Tower Bridge

Help Alex:
begin the talk with Ann by asking
what she thinks about this problem;
You may use the following words, phrases and scheme:
• Do you agree that...?•
Are you sure ....?• How many times ...?• Why do you like ...?•
I'm sure ...;• I believe ...;
• I wish we had ... every day; • I'm looking forward to ...;
• useful (favourite, unpopular, boring) subject;
once (twice, three times) a week
to get information; to discover new things;
to learn interesting computer programmes;
to play computer games.

Practice the dialogue in pairs.
Ann is an English girl. She is from London. Alex is a Russian boy who speaks good English. They are having a talk about computer programming in schools. Ann thinks that pupils must learn to use the computers. Alex thinks that schoolchildren needn't study computer programming. Suddenly something awful happens and Alex forgets all the expressions that he is supposed to use to explain his ideas. Help Alex to:

Results of the research:
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THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE RESEARCH:
Development of communicative skills is a key component in training students in foreign languages.
Communicative activities and interactive methods give students practice in using the language and results in greater knowledge.
The teacher`s role in the classroom is to be a facilitator and the students should be the central focus.