Keyword: «lexical and grammar skills»

The article summarizes the author’s experience of using communicative exercises and creative tasks when teaching English to second-year Education majors (Primary education and the English language). Reasons for extensive use of creative tasks are highlighted, examples of various exercises and tasks done at the lessons when dealing with the topic “Clothes. Style. Fashion” are given and ways of performing them are described.

The article summarizes the author’s experience of using creative tasks when teaching English to third-year Education majors (Primary education and the English language). Reasons for extensive use of creative tasks are highlighted, examples of various exercises and tasks done at the lessons when revising the topic “Personality” are given and ways of performing them are described.

The article touches upon some aspects of working with the texts of folk tales at the lessons of Russian as a foreign language. For foreign students such texts may be considered as one of the instruments of sociocultural adaptation as well as the material for getting lexical and grammar skills. The example of working with the text of the Russian foik tale ‘The Magic Swan Geese’ is analysed by the author. It may be used at the beginning of teaching Russian as a foreign language.