DESCRIPTION OF THE PICTURE DURING TEACHING THE MONOLOGIC SPEECH WITHIN THE DISCIPLINE ’’AVIATION ENGLISH’’
The article deals with the method of describing the pictures as one of the effective ones for development oral speech skills within the discipline ’’Aviation English’’ learnt by the students of Saint-Petersburg University of Civil Aviation (SPbGUGA). Future pilots and an air traffic controllers must be proficient in the English language so that they could deal with professional tasks. And this is a necessary precondition for their successful career. That’s why learning plain English is the main task of both students and teachers. The author suggests methods of describing pictures, enumerates their selection criteria, lists key phrases and expressions which can be used during description of ’’situational’’ pictures.