The article is devoted to the problems of optimising the methodology of teaching English to higher education students in the field of physical education and sports through the use of communicative methods, information and communication technologies, etc.The article proves the necessity of forming communicative and intercultural competence, which will allow future sports professionals to use a foreign language in professional and social spheres, taking into account the parameters necessary for free communication in the conditions of international sports professional activity.The main factors of professional-oriented training, directions of teaching a foreign language to athletes, as well as its application in the educational process are considered.It is proved that the intellectual need as a component of the motivational sphere of a higher education student can also be realised by means of a foreign language.Language is a system built as a result of a high level of abstraction.All the diversity of foreign language speech practice is embodied in a limited set of abstract rules that are necessary for practical mastery of a foreign language.The development of linguistic competence in the course of studying English at a master's level involves purposeful and systematic work on mastering the vocabulary and phraseology of foreign language business communication.It is very important for students to master the lexical and phraseological norms of business discourse in English, to understand the specifics of using lexical items in business verbal communication.The author points out the peculiarities of English business vocabulary, which has its own specifics for each sphere The peculiarities of teaching students to conduct a business conversation on (,, ) 1(47) 2025169 the phone in English are considered.Situations of foreign language business communication over the phone are presented.The article emphasises the difficulty of conducting a foreign language telephone conversation due to the lack of eye contact with the interlocutor and suggests methods of overcoming it.Learning to communicate on the telephone involves both the accumulation of a certain amount of business English vocabulary and the mastery of stable phrases and clichs used in telephone dialogues.The article also discusses the peculiarities of teaching masters to write a business letter.When working with business correspondence, physical education students learn specialised terminology and peculiarities of business paperwork.The authors note that a prerequisite for successful work on mastering foreign language business communication is the use of interactive teaching methods and technologies.