Possible ways of organizing warming-up activities during practical classes in a foreign language in educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

The article elicits possible types of speech warming-up exercises as an organizational part of a class in the discipline “Foreign Language”, aimed at developing and improving the skills of spontaneous speech in the form of monologues, dialogues and/or polylogues. The aim of the article is to demonstrate possible formats of warming-up activities which are optimal to use when working with cadets of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Among the recommended formats, the following are considered: responding to questions based on visual stimuli; role-playing dialogues situationally anchored in the professional activities of police officers; composing verbal portraits; interpreting terms that form semantic fields within the relevant branches of law; reconstructing the chronology of events related to the commission of a crime; identifying temporal gaps in the statements of witnesses and suspects; and news reports on innovations in the professional activities of internal affairs officers. Recommendations for organizing warming-up activities, regardless of the specific format used, include deferred error correction and grouping cadets of varying proficiency levels in professional foreign language communicative competence to accomplish the designated tasks.