The role of a role-playing game can not be exhausted and evaluated by entertaining and recreational possibilities. Her phenomenon lies in the fact that the game, being an amusement, rest, has the ability to grow into creativity, learning and a model of human relationships. In modern pedagogy, role-playing game is regarded as a specific kind of human activity, aimed at reflecting the
surrounding reality, in particular the work of adults, their lives and social relations.
The article deals with the problem of teaching the first-year students foreign language dialog speech through the role-play. A role-playing game is suitable for any work with a language in classes from a foreign language: during the role-playing game, various grammatical structures, intonational models, lexical materials on different topics are used. An important role is played by the role play in mastering students with unprepared speech, because thanks to it, students have the opportunity to communicate in communicative situations.
The definition of role-play game is determined; types of role-playing games are given. The definition of the content of dialog speech, the concept of dialog speech competence and one of the most important psychological peculiarities of dialogical speech are revealed. The article also describes the functional types of dialogues and the main approaches to teaching dialogical speech. The groups of
exercises for dialogical speech formation are given. The expediency of using the III group of exercises for teaching different types of dialogue through the role-play is substantiated. The exercises from the textbook “A way to success: English for university students” are presented and described for the development of the students’ ability to communicate in a form of dialogue.