The need for communicative approach, which requires the use of a foreign language in various spheres of life determines the attention paid by teachers and researchers to dialogue as the most common form of spoken language.  A number of specific features, such as a significant amount of etiquette formulas, stereotypes and cliches in replication, the importance of the psychological characteristics of the interlocutors and active use of discourse strategies call special attention to the factors determining the choice of dialogue structures. The author proposes a system of exercises for training dialogical structures and linguistic characteristics of dialogue using com-munication strategies, in particular discursive strategies in the exercises at the initial stage of training.