Keyword: «short stories»

The article is devoted to the analysis of the literary legacy of the English writer of the first half of the 20th century William Somerset Maugham. The author puts the focus on the works that deal with the problems of family and marriage. The problems under discussion are viewed within the context of Maugham's ideas. The novelist's concepts of true love and happy marriage are also represented in the article.

The article focuses on the ways of using the questionnaire as a means of teaching and a means of checking the level of formation of communicative competence of undergraduate students of a language university. The author of the article analyzes the possibilities of forming communicative competence on the material of Somerset Maugham's short stories "The Luncheon", "The Letter", "The Kite" and provides methodological comments.