Keyword: «communicative context»

This article describes how teachers can use authentic texts for learning verb tense forms in English. Researches and teaching practice show that foreign language learners understand tense forms relatively quickly, but it is much more difficult for them to comprehend relations between verb form, aspect, and tense in the grammar of the studied language. The use of authentic texts in learning verb tenses is not just a means of giving the grammar a semantic content, but it also helps students to understand relations between the verb form and its meaning and use. The paper shows a brief analysis of grammatical tenses use on the example of various texts about railway transport. There are assignments after each text, worked out to develop students' abilities to recognize and differentiate features of semantic content and use of English verbs grammatical tenses.