TEACHING TED TALKS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE AT UNIVERSITY
The relevance of TED talk format as the genre of interactive communication is substantiated in the article. The key features of such format are described. This format is considered from different didactic perspectives: as a way of development of speech creativity in a foreign language, enhancement of skills and abilities of communicative competence, critical and creative thinking skills, consolidation of intellectual resources of the individual; and as a form of organization of classroom and extracurricular activities in foreign language classes. The authors analyze cognitive, lexical, communicative approaches to teaching a foreign language and methods for building didactic and technological foundations of teaching. The key ideas of the approaches are presented in the algorithm, in which each approach complements each other, forming an organic system. The algorithm of teaching a public talk in the TED format is a step-by-step technique of interaction between a teacher and a student in the teaching process. The authors associate the prospects of using the TED talk format within the educational discipline "Foreign language" and beyond.