Abstract
Interactive methods of teaching English are innovative. Based on the research of A. L. Andreev, we understand the innovation process as “a purposeful, motivated process aimed at creating, mastering and using modern ideas that are relevant and adapted to specific conditions and meet clear criteria”. Teaching English is an integral system, the main goals of which are to form and develop foreign language communicative and cultural competence of students. At the same time, the focus should be on the individual characteristics of students, their active learning activities. The teacher needs to make every effort to form a positive motivation for learning English. At the same time, the contradictions between the demands of society and the low motivation of students to learn foreign languages in general indicate the need to use effective methods and forms of education that contribute to the formation of communicative competence.