Angelina P. Kostiuchenko

This article examines the peculiarities of teaching English in a professional direction to students studying in the specialty "oil industry", analyzes new professionally-oriented technologies in teaching and forms the basic principles of motivating students during the assimilation of new material. The paper also presents a list of typical situations of professionally oriented communication aimed at improving students' understanding of the specifics of the scope of the vocabulary being studied in their future professional activities.

the authors consider the main linguistic features of the scientific and technical discourse and approaches to the scientific and methodological support of teaching the main types of speech activity in English in the oil and gas industry.