Использование диктантов в процессе развития иноязычных речевых умений учащихся

Single-Word Dictation.

1.1 Listen to the words, write them down dividing into 2 groups according to the titles:

Bananas, apples, tomatoes, onions, pears, cabbages,apricots, oranges, potatoes, carrots.

FRUIT: ____________________ ____________________ . . .

VEGETABLES: ____________________ ____________________ . . .

1.2. Change your works and check your friend's dictation.

1.3. Finish the sentences and say:

I like . . .

I’d liketo buy . . .

2.1. Listen to the story about my favourite school subjects. Write down the names of the subjects:

My favourite subjects are Cooking, History, Art and Science. I like English and Literature too.

2.2. Compare your list of the words with your partner's list. Correct the mistakes if any.

2.3. Interview your classmate about his/her favourite subject.

2.4. Tell the class about your and your friend's favourite school subjects.

3.1. Listen to the words. Write them down dividing into two groups:

Boots, raincoats, trousers, pullovers, shirts, pyjamas, pants, gloves, sweaters, shoes, tights, dresses, ties.

BOYS WEAR: ____________________ ____________________ . . .

GIRLS WEAR: ____________________ ____________________ . . .

3.2. Compare your lists of words with your friend's work.

3.3. Tell the class what clothes you like to wear, what things you have on today, what things you wouldlike to wear.

4.1. Listento the words describingpeople's character.

Kind, patient, hardworking, critical, artistic, creative, brave, honest, serious, reliable, practical, selfish, romantic, thoughtful, friendly, generous, sociable, greedy, sensitive, careless, reticent, prudent, gentle, sympathetic, emotional, easy-going, loyal, lazy, mystical.

Write them down in 3 columns: positive, negative and other.

+ ___________ ___________

– __________ __________

0 _________ _________

4.2. Compareyour work with your classmate's one.

4.3. Describe your character using the words: extremely,not at all, quite,abit, rather.

Dictations with grammar tasks.

1.1. Выпишите из текста существительные во множественном числе, определите их начальную форму (единственное число).

Тоm's farm is in the country. There is a farmhouse with flowers round the door and the windows. There are a lot of animals on the farm. There are horses, cows, sheep, hens and pigs. The man near the door is farmer Tom. His wife is working in the garden, and his two sons are playing in the yard with their dog and four puppies. Tom's daughter Mary is in the room. She is drawing a picture. There are eight miceand a bigcat on the picture.

1.2. Проверьте свою работу по ключам.

1.З. Озаглавьте текст.

1.4. Pасскажите своим одноклассникам о своих домашних животных.

2.1. Выпишите из текста глаголы в Past Simple Tense.

NIGHТ SТORY

I watched a long film on TV last night, and it was very late when I went to bed. I read a book in bed because I couldn^’t go to sleep. I fell asleep at about two o^’clock at night but I woke up suddenly at three because I heard a loud noise in the kitchen. I walked down stairs, opened the kitchen door and I saw - our cat. I shouted at, and it ran away through the open kitchen window.

2.2. Напишите начальную форму этих глаголов. Проверьте свою работу, сверяясь со списком Irregular Verbs.

2.3. 0тветьте на вопросы:

• What did you do last night?
• Did you watch TV?
• When did you go to sleep?

3.1. Распределитe слова по столбикам в соответствии с их грамматическим значением (по частям речи).

N o u n	V e r b	A d j e c t i v e

dog cry eat far money ruler hand tall bad clean garden bring

play uncle daughter farm hungry build river good bed town read brought

green interesting small put hunter bag stop find go boring write brigh

3.2. Проверьте работу своего соседа по парте или проверьте свою работу по ключам.

4.1. Выпишите из текста прилагательные в сравнительной и превосходной степенях. Дайте три формы степеней сравнения этих прилагательных

Positive	Comparative	Superlative

London is the capital of Great Britain. It stands on the River Thames. It is one of the largest cities in the world. Tourists come to London to visit its historic buildings. The most famous of them are St Paul’s Cathedral and Houses of Parliament. The oldest building in London is the Tower. But the best thing about the сity is the parks. There are five of them in the city. The most interesting park is Regent Park with its famous Zoo. But the most popular place for children is Hanley’s which is the biggest toyshop in the world.

4.2. Проверьте работу своего соседа по парте или проверьте свою работу по ключам.

4.3. Озаглавьте текст.

4.4. Ответьте на вопросы:

• What is the capital of Great Britain?
• Why do tourists come to London?
• What do you know about the Tower?
• Would you like to go to London? Why?

Listening Comprehension

1.1. Прослушайте текст и заполните таблицу.

THE SMITH FAMILY

Ralf is thirty-two years old. Leonard is twenty-eight. Robert is twenty-five and Susan is twenty-four. Susan, the only daughter in the Smith family, is a biologist, She lives and works in Boston, the USA. George, the second oldest brother, is a dentist. Like Ralf, George lives and works in London. Leonard likes animals, so he works as a zoo-keeper in Bristol Zoo. Robert is a cook, He has his own restaurant. He opened it some years ago when he moved to the USA. Robert doesn't live in Britain, he lives with Susan in the USA, but in Boston.

1. 2. Проверьте свою работу по ключам.

1. 3. Расскажите о членах своей семьи.

2.1. Это план квартиры. Прослушайте текст с описанием квартиры и определите, где какая комната.

The flat I am going to speak about is very big. There are four rooms, a hall, а bathroom, a kitchen and a toilet of course in the flat.

You go to the front door of the flat and then you are in the hall. It is long and wide. There is also a long corridor in the flat. The room on your right is the sitting room. In the evenings the whole family stays there to talk, to watch TV andto have a cup of tea with home-made cakes.

The room on your left is the dining room. We usually have breakfasts and dinners there. Next to the dining room is the kitchen. My mother spends most of her time there. She is quite proud of her kitchen. There is everything you need for cooking in the kitchen.

The small room at the end of the hall is a toilet. There are three rooms opposite the sitting room. Two of them are bedrooms. One of them is the bathroom. The bathroom is between the two bedrooms. My parent's bedroom is next to the bathroom. It is a bit bigger than my bedroom.

Room A _____________________
Room B ____________________
Room С_____________________
Room D_____________________
Room E_____________________
Room F_____________________
Room G_____________________
Room H is a hall.

2. 2. Проверьте свою работу по ключам.

2. 3. Нарисуйте план своей квартиры и расскажите о ней.

3. 1. Прослушайте информацию человека о себе и заполните информационную карточку.

SOME PERSONALINFORMATION

My name is Jannet Higginson. I come from a very large family. I've got two brothers and three sisters. I'm the youngest.
I am English and I am 32 years old. My birthday is on the twenty-first of October.
I live in Brighton at 47 High Road. I live in a small house with a large garden. I'm a teacher. I teach English and French at school. I like my job very much.
Every year I go to France with my twenty students and we usually have a very interesting time there. We visit many interesting places: towns and cities, museums and art galleries.
I am married and I have a daughter. Her name is Julia. She is eight years old and goes to the school where I work. My husband’s name is Anthony and he is a bus driver. He drives our daughter and me to school every day.

SOME PERSONAL INFORMATION

3.2. Обменяетесь работами со своим соседом по парте и проверьте работы по ключам.

3.3. Расспросите своего одноклассника о нем/ней и внесите ответы в информационную карточку.

3.4. Расскажите о своем однокласснике.

4.1. Прослушайте рассказ о детях и их интересах и заполните таблицу.

HICH SPORT DO YOU LIKE?

The four children were asked about what sports they liked. The two boys, Joseph and Daniel, said their favourite sport was football but Mary and Anna, the two girls, didn't like it at all. They think football is a boring game.
All four children enjoy playing tennis. There is a tennis court near their house and they like going there at weekends. Joseph and the two girls like going swimming. Daniel doesn’t like swimming at all. He thinks swimming pools are always too crowded and the sea is too cold.
Daniel doesn’t mind the cold when he is skiing. He loves skiing. He went on a skiing holiday with his family last year and had a wonderful time. Anna can ski too but she doesn’t like it very much. She broke her leg when she went skiing last year. Neither Joseph nor Mary has ever been skiing. They say they don’t want even to try. They don’t think skiing is a sport for them.
Daniel and Mary love horses and often go riding. Anna went riding once but fell off and broke her arm. Now she doesn’t like riding at all, Joseph prefers football, tennis or swimming to riding horses.

WHICH SPORT DO YOU LIKE?

4.2. Проверьте свою работу по ключам.

4.3. Расскажите о своих любимых видах спорта.

Dictations which Involve Pictures

My Room.

1. Listen to the text, look at the picture and find the objects in it. Write down only the "wrong" sentences.

MY ROOM

There is one window in my room. There are curtains on the window. To the right of the window there is a desk. There's a vase on it. There are five roses in the vase. To the left of the desk there is a chair. There is a TV - set on the desk. There are two pictures on the wall to the left of the TV - set. There is a lamp above the pictures. There is a bed at the wall and near the bed there is a rug. There is a sofa near the door. Under the sofa there is a cat.

2. Compare your work with your friend's one.

3. Correct the mistakes and write down your variant of the sentences.

4. Is your room like this one?

Words on a Picture Dictations

1. Disappearing species

1.1. Listen to the names of the animals. Place them on themap in proper places.

Camel, Asian elephantspider monkey, lynx, Californian condor, bald eagle, humback whale, black rhino, kangaroo, giant tortoise, zebra, crocodile, bison, cockatoo.

1.2. Compareyour map with your partner's.

1.3. These animals are in danger. Why?

2. Для выполнения учащимися этого задания учителю необходимо заранее приготовить контурныe карты по географии.

2.1. Перед вами пустая комната. Прослушайте список предметов мебели и запишите или зарисуйте их там, где вы разместили ба эту мебель.

cupboard
mirror
table
armchair
sofa
shelf
TV set
chest of drawers

2.2. Сравни свой рисунок с рисунками одноклассников.

2.3. Расскажи, что ты хотел бы добавить к обстановке этой комнаты, чтобы она выглядела уютнее.

2.4. Опиши свою комнату.

Picture Dictations

Перед выполнением этого задания объясните учащимся, что писать ничего не надо. Надо зарисовать ту информацию, которая содержится в тексте. Если необходимо, можно пользоваться цветными карандашами или фломастерами. При проверке диктанта - рисунка учитывается то, насколько верно изображена на нем информация, содержащая в тексте.

1. Thereis a vase in the middle of the picture. There are five flowers in the vase. One flower is red, two flowers are pink, the rest are white. There is a flower to the right of the vase. It is blue. There are two boxes to the left of the vase. One is brown, the other is white. There is a green ball on the top of the brown box.

2. There are two men on the picture. One man is fat, the second man is thin. The fat man is short, the thin man is tall. The fat man is wearing trousers and a checked shirt, the tall man is wearing shorts and a striped T-shirt. The fat man has a hat on but the thin one has no hat. The tall man is holding a bag in his hand but the short man has nothing in his hands.

3.1. Listen to the text and draw a picture. Don't worry if you can’t draw well.

Draw a square on a piece of paper. Draw the sun in the top right-hand corner. Draw a small one-storey house in the middle distance on the left-hand side, with a path coming from the house towards the bottom right of the picture . There should be two windows on the front side of the house. There are appletrees on both sides of the house. The path coming from the house disappears from the bottom right of the picture. Draw two people in the foreground. We can't see their legs, only their chests, they are looking towards us from the picture. One of them is a girl holding a bunch of flowers. Another is a boy who has a baseball hat on. He is holding a bag in his right hand. Both children are smiling. They feel happy.

3.2. Compare your picture with your friends drawings. Whose drawing is the best?

3.3. Answer the following questions;

• Do you like to draw?
• What is your hobby?
• How do you spend your free time?

4. This exercise can be done as a revision and deepening of known vocabulary. Ask the students to take a piece of paper and draw a place which they like a lot. Suggest that they draw a large picture using most of the paper in front of them. Make it clear that the worse they draw the better it is for the exercise.

4.1. Explain that you are going to dictate the following words and ask them to write down the relevant ones on the appropriate places in their drawings. They take down only those words that fit.

comfortable warm soft isolated old alone high intimate under blue with crowded hospitable

stability security harsh climate social order wood desert valley attractiveness mountains drought bright hidden exciting

fertile rich vegetation adventure holidays rural environment noisy cosy muddy dangerous clear forbidden hard to reach relaxed hospitable

4.2. Ask the students to add any other words of their own if they want to. Students work together in small groups and describe the place they have chosen and explain the placing of the words.

4.3. Tell your classmates why you would like to live in this plaсe.