Annotation. This article includes foreign language courses in a non-linguistic university and
analyzes the requirements for the lexical qualification of students of aviation specialties. The article
made a decision on the nomenclature of productive and receptive lexical skills useful for the
formation of aviation university students. The features of aviation terminology are considered.
Exercises for the development of lexical skills are offered.

Keywords: intercultural communicative professionally oriented competence, aviation
terminology, productive-receptive lexical skills, lexical exercises.