The article is devoted to the specifics of teaching English as a foreign language on the higher
education program ―5B011900- Foreign language: two foreign languages‖. The work provides basic information on
prehistoric formation of public speaking schools in ancient world and middle age civilizations. The article touches upon
the issues of developing learners‘ communicative skills on tutorials of English for Specific Purposes on the 3rd year of
studies and Communicative-oriented Teaching of a Foreign Language as an elective course for the 4th year students.
The authors study psychological types and different learning styles of EFL learners observed during teaching
experiences of higher education institution lecturers. In the article the authors make emphasis on the strategies and
principles of delivering public speech. The article concludes that there are several clear advantages to using public
speaking tasks in ELT as: public speaking provides opportunities to practice all four language skills, supports
development of critical thinking skills, promotes learning.