Mikhail A. Rodionov

In the current social-economic situation, the demand for specialists in the food industry is increasing. An important role in shaping the competitiveness of future labour market participants is played by professionally-oriented foreign language learning. The purpose of the article is to describe the experience of organized professionally–oriented interaction with the use of a foreign language to form the competitiveness of future specialists in food industry at a technological university. Based on the content of the concept of "competitiveness", it becomes obvious that it is necessary to organize interaction in order to form it. The authors highlight the importance of professionally-oriented foreign language training for specialists in the food industry in relation to the performance of labour functions and their competitiveness in the labor market. The integration of language training with the content of the disciplines of the professional cycle is presented, i.e. the topics of the worked out manual correlate with the cycles of professional disciplines. Auxiliary tasks and expected results of the lesson are defined in the worked out first lesson on the discipline "Foreign language" for future specialists of the food industry. It describes professionally-oriented interaction with the use of a foreign language in the first three semesters, in which the discipline "Foreign language" is studied. In addition to the introduction of a professionally-oriented manual into the training course of future specialists in the food industry, the training methods, which are used, are also indicated. The described experience of organized professionally-oriented interaction using a foreign language can be useful for organizing professionally-oriented interaction in other areas of training.