Communicative Tasks in the Russian Language Classes at a Technical University

The article deals with the methods of forming the communicative competence of students in the preparation of highly qualified specialists. According to the author, modeling of potentially possible working situations plays a special role in this. The author examines teaching methods and ways of developing students’ oral speech by practicing lexical and grammatical models on the basis of thematic texts. The proposed types of assignments, to some extent, will help students transform the text, shorten it, select the main thing in it, and then reproduce it sequentially. The author proposed the development of communicative-situational tasks for teaching the professional Russian language to students in the direction of training 750500 “Construction”, profile “Production of building materials, products and structures” (PSK).