Creative Approach to Home Reading in Teaching a Foreign Language in Higher School

This article focuses on the application of a creative approach to the aspect «home reading» in teaching a foreign language in higher school. The article analyses the role of home reading as one of the important aspects of language study; examines the basic components of a creative approach at foreign language classes; it underlines the necessity of creative activity of the teacher, the correct selection of the texts and development of interesting and innovative tasks and exercises that will increase students' motivation. The article deals with the issues of intercultural communication and the importance of sociocultural and polycultural competences; emphasizes the role of texts on cultural studies in the process of teaching a foreign language. The article provides the examples of interesting, original tasks and exercises that not only expand the students’ vocabulary, but also broaden their horizons in the field of culinary culture of the country of the studied language, and gives a description of the text on country study on which the exercises are based. The article also emphasizes the relevance of the selected topic for home reading in higher school and explains why the text on this topic will be interesting for students. At the end of the article there is a conclusion that the creative approach to the aspect «home reading» will help to make the learning process more effective and entertaining.