TEACHING OF SENIOR-CLASS PUPILS TO DEAL WITH PRECIS, SUMMARIES AND ANNOTATIONS WRITING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article dwells upon the development of
pupils ability to deal with information in a foreign language.
Consequently, the need of teaching students how to sum up
is emphasized. The specific features of précis, summaries
and annotations are discussed. Unfortunately, there are no
special exercises aiming at training for précis, summary and
annotation writing in school textbooks. Many senior pupils fail
to do these tasks even in their mother tongue. The purpose
of the article is to give an algorithm of summing up for use by
school teachers since this kind of activity is the most essential
for pupils scientific work nowadays.