Teaching foreigners to perceive Russian TV speech is a modern and relevant direction in teaching Russian as a foreign language. It gives the recipients an opportunity to enter Russian culture organically in a broad inclusion of this concept; to master the peculiarities of functioning of language units of all levels in live literary speech; to understand how elements of different functional styles work in speech; to get acquainted with expressive and figurative means of language and the peculiarities of their functioning in TV speech; to get acquainted with language norms, peculiarities of intonation, variation of logical accent, gesticulation and mimicry; to get a sample for speech reproduction and to get a sample of the language norms in live TV speech.
