Provides productive acquisition of a foreign language in medical secondary special educational institutions. Adequate understanding in the field of professional communication, in particular medicine, is achieved on the condition of mastering a specific layer of professional vocabulary, the work on the assimilation of which is comprehensively done with the help of a manual. An unusual way of presenting material is used, taking into account the psychological features of learning a foreign language and activating various types of memory. Phraseological material based on somatisms is a logical addition to communicative exercises. Conforms to the latest generation of GEF SPS. For students of secondary vocational education, studying in an enlarged group of specialties "Health care and medical sciences" .