The article presents interactive methods of teaching English. The author describes the possibility of using some of these methods and techniques in teaching English as a foreign language., traditional reproductive education, the passive subordinate role of the student, cannot solve such problems. To solve them, new pedagogical technologies, effective forms of organization of the educational process, active teaching methods are required. The main idea in this case is the idea of an active personality, aimed primarily at their own development through interaction with the outside world. Namely, the development of mental activity of students as one of the components of the activity of the individual as a whole.