Natalya Baranova

Significant changes in the society require increasing of efficiency of foreign language educational activity. As a result of this, there is an urgent need to improve the methods and forms of education, one of which is students’ autonomous work, increasing the interest to the language, and promoting the effective achieve-ment of all the goals of learning a foreign language.

This article considers the requirements of federal state educational standards of primary general, basic gen-eral and secondary education to the results of studying the development of the subject «Foreign Lan-guage», as well as the implementation of requirements in the work program in a foreign language to the textbook I.N. Vereshchagin, O.V. Afanasyeva and I.V. Mikheeva for schools with intensive studying of Eng-lish.

This article considers dictogloss as the powerful means of activation of verbal and cogitative work at the English lesson, giving an opportunity to use lexico-grammatical knowledge, skills and acquirements not separately but as the whole system for solving practical speaking tasks.

The paper is devoted to integration of the Internet resources into educational process. The paper considers topical issues of using the Internet, defines educational methods, reviews the advantages and confirms the relevance of their usage in teaching foreign languages.

The article considers different approaches to the definition of «multimedia», as well as didactic functions and properties of multimedia, which are an integral part of the theory and methodology of teaching foreign languages at the present stage.