Elena Novikova

The article presents the experience of using different methods of teaching English in terms of soft skills formation. The authors demonstrate various approaches to the use of the term. They come to the conclusion that that the effective management of group and pair work, guided discovery activities during English lessons can develop and improve communicative skills, skills of team work, critical thinking skills, which are important for graduates’ future professional activity.

The article tells about the requirements to materials for non-linguistic students in foreign language teaching. The system of exercises, presented in the article shows how a teacher can develop students’ communicative competence.