In this article an author intended to describe games as a key for teaching foreign languages, looked at how games will help students to master a foreign language, what kind of functions they play and which games can be provided as the most classroom activity

The article considers the problems various methods of teaching foreign languages in universities. Particular attention was paid to the following methods: direct method, grammar-translation, audiovisual, audiolingual and communicative. According to the author modern teaching methods involve the use of such a system of methods, which is aimed not at the presentation of ready-made knowledge by the teacher and their reproduction, but at the independent mastery of knowledge by the trainees in the process of active cognitive activity