TEACHING LISTENING WHEN WORKING WITH ENGLISH-LANGUAGE TV NEWS STORIES

Abstract

To date, there is a need to train highly qualified specialists who would have the ability to understand English by ear and effectively use these skills in professional activities. One of the ways of teaching listening is to teach future specialists to understand and discuss information programs transmitted by the media in a foreign language. The article substantiates the relevance of the use of English-language TV news stories in teaching listening, provides a description of the stages of learning to listen to English-language TV news, defines goals of each stage and their content. The stages of working with TV news videos when teaching listening are considered and groups of exercises used at each of the stages are given. In the article, we presented a methodology for working with a video of English-language news when teaching listening to English-language TV news.