Abstract. This article deals with the problem of using a literary text for teaching different types of reading and using it in the educational process as a whole, foreign methods of teaching a foreign language is still an ongoing debate about the appropriateness of this type of activity.

Keywords: language skills – lexical and grammatical, linguistic and cultural aspect, social, cultural, structure of a foreign language society, process semantic information, systematize and analyze what has been read, work with a dictionary.