The workshop was developed within the framework of the discipline "Basic Foreign Language (German)" in accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Education in the direction of training 45. 03. 01 Philology and contains some topics on oral speaking practice for students studying German as a major foreign. This workshop presents the following topics: travel, art, character and appearance of a person, media. The workshop includes a vocabulary on these topics, provides reference texts and a set of lexical exercises that train oral speech skills within the framework of the material covered . The workshop is designed for students of the training direction 45. 03. 01 Philology .