Abstract
The article discusses ways of choosing and adapting text to develop listening skills. Successful listening performance depends on the formation of certain language skills of the listener. The listener perceives the main concept of the text, separates it from the secondary, memorizes the message at a certain pace and for a certain period of time, makes linguistic and semantic predictions, understands the communication situation, etc. analyzes the problems, knowledge and skills that interfere with the understanding of texts by audition. Listening texts serve to understand the event, expand the language in the perception of its meaning, supplement linguistic knowledge, train, that is, consolidate new linguistic material. The text choosing and selection increase the efficiency of language learning. To do this, you need to be able to correctly select authentic texts in accordance with the language purpose. When listening to texts, they are guided by the structural parts (type, style) that determine the communicative situation. The real story in the text, life, arouses the interest of the language learner and leads to discussion. Authentic texts also describe natural intonations of speech, such as real emotions with extreme emotionality, images and descriptions. In the article, the authors show the main aspects of authentic texts, their differences from inauthentic texts and how they can be adapted for the audience. Analyze the reasons and ways of adapting the text.