This article deals with the ways of intensifying the process of learning a foreign language in a technical high school. Limited time, a large amount of material to be assimilated, forced to look for ways to improve learning. The most effective training exercises to consolidate vocabulary with a communicative orientation. When selecting plants for communicative exercises must take into account individual psychological characteristics of students who are engaged in the same group. Activated by the lesson vocabulary should be relevant to students sufficiently widely-used language for scientific literature.