The article discusses the issues of teaching speaking to future tourism specialists. The formation and
development of foreign language spoken language is the process of instilling future specialists with the skills
and abilities of understanding and expressing thoughts, designed in a foreign language. These tools are little
known to future specialists, since he cannot get them from the environment, just as he receives means of
expressing thoughts in his native language. Thus, in the process of teaching perception and reproduction of
speech in a foreign language, the categories of form and content play an important role. Auditory,
audiovisual and visual supports are used to form oral foreign speech. Visual props are printed texts. In the
methodology of teaching English as a foreign language, the question of the use of texts in teaching speaking
was widely discussed. There is no definite answer to this question. We hold the view that for future tourism
specialists, texts are the main source of language tools and information