Abstract—Social and economic changes that have taken place in the country in recent years make new demands on specialists in various fields of knowledge, and economists are no exception. The English language study plays a major role in forming professional qualities of future economists. The implementation of the tasks requires the use of various methods in teaching English to students of economic departments, but the main methodological innovations today involve the use of interactive teaching methods. The article describes practical examples of using the most popular interactive teaching methods (role play, brainstorming, case study, discussion) at the English language classes with students of economic departments. The authors come to the conclusion that the use of interactive methods in teaching a foreign language to future economists helps to organize an active interaction of all participants of the communication process which results in the exchange of professional information in a foreign language and the acquisition of profess