Keyword: «focal object method»

Changes in society require the transformation of traditional educational process, which needs the implementation of innovative methods and technologies. The modern education system neither keeps up with scientific and technological progress nor fully meets the new requirements of the labor market and sufficiently reflects the needs of the society, the information stage of development of which is gradually replacing the industrial one, when information technologies come to the fore. Therefore, we need significant changes in education. The formation of such skills in children as the ability for productive thinking, invention, creativity and making of objectively new things is becoming relevant today. In this regard, priority is given to the theory of solving inventive tasks (TRIZ), the methods and instruments of which are advisable to use in all lessons, including foreign language lessons. The article is devoted to substantiating the importance of using TRIZ technology in English teaching and developing new creative tasks based on creative thinking enhancing methods. The possibilities of their application are shown not only for effective foreign language teaching of younger schoolchildren, but also for the development of their creative abilities as well as the ability to solve any task in life. The article is targeted at composing innovative creative tasks in English classes by using the methods of a focal object, morphological analysis and associations focused on the formation of the lexical and grammatical side of speech, the development of thinking originality and students’ creative activity. Completing tasks is fun via insights thanks to switching efforts to other objects, without memorizing the rules by heart and performing boring exercises, and all stages of the creative process are the interaction of consciously selected strategies for solving any problem. The developed set of tasks focused on the creative thinking formation of children can be offered for implementation in school educational institutions.