The article dwells upon the problem of development of the students’ creative abilities at the lessons by means of functional approach, which assists to improve their communicative competence. In order to achieve this goal the author of the article stresses the necessity of redesigning of lesson plans. The author also represents a number of tasks which elevate students’ interest for learning foreign languages and in the outcome the positive tendency for increasing the level of students’ creativity is observed
creativity, lesson, creative thinking, functional approach, communication, nonstandard approach, lesson plan
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