The workshop was developed with the aim of organizing laboratory classes in the study of the discipline "Economic and Social Geography of Foreign Countries" . Includes material for systematic step-by-step development of the content of the sections and topics of the course, deepening and consolidating the theoretical knowledge of students, improving the skills of independent work. It contains questions and tasks that will help the future teacher of geography to consider specific geographical phenomena and facts against the background of common geographical concepts and patterns. Addressed to students of the 5th year of the Faculty of Natural Geography of Ryazan State University named after C. A. Esenina, trained in the direction of training 44. 03. 05 "Pedagogical education" (with two training profiles), focus (profiles) biology and geography .