EXERCISES FOR DEVELOPING STUDENTS-PHILOLOGISTS SKILLS TO UNDERSTAND VARIANTS OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE IN THE PROCESS OF READING

The article discusses possible strategies forteaching reading the texts in German for students of philology.The methodological literature and the experience of scientistsin the field of developing the competence in reading have been considered. A set of exercises for teaching understanding ofvariants of German is presented. The application of a set ofexercises aimed at teaching such receptive type of speechactivity as reading provides the organization of independentwork of students of Philology in order to understand the variantsof the German language in the process of reading. The formationof skills and abilities covers the following stages: preparatory,executive, as well as the stage of text reflection.The stages identify the types of exercises that are relevantboth for mastering foreign language material and improvingcommunication skills in reading. The article offers ways tooptimize the independent work of students of Philology in orderto improve the learning process of mastering communicativecompetence in the process of reading authentic texts in German.The author focuses on lexical items for Austrian and SwissGerman, provides interactive exercises on the Learning Apps.Attention is focused on the independent organization of teachingreading to students of Philology. The author presents thelinguistic and cultural information of the German-speakingcountries: Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It is recommendedto do the set of tasks both during the classroom training andas a selfstudy activity using information and communicationtechnologies.