INNOVATIVE MEANS FOR TESTING KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES OF ADOLESCENTS AT THE LESSONS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

In this article we found out the ways of creating innovating means for testing pupils’ skills, abilities and knowledge which not only help the teacher to control teenagers’ process of studying, but also are directed on the development of pupils’ person. In this article we proposed the stages of pupils’ activity with text material which are based not only on information of the text but also on own experience of pupils. It was shown that the first stage (pretext) was implemented before reading the text. Exercises at this stage are aimed at predicting content and semantic information of the text, as well as the removal of possible difficulties in the phonetic, lexical and grammatical nature. The second stage (textual) is the reading of the entire text silently. The reading process can take place in the classroom or at home by the teacher’s instructions. The third stage (post-text) involves performing tasks to control the understanding of the content of the text having been read, as well as exercises aimed at assimilating the linguistic means that provide the skills for operating by pupils these tools in their own statements at the level of the phrase or unpublished unity in connection with the content of the text. The fourth stage is the stage of performing speech exercises, the purpose of which is to develop pupils’ abilities to make fluent oral monologues on the basis of semantic information of the text. Exercises with problematic tasks are carried out, which are based not only on information of the text but also on own experience of pupils.