Modern globalization, which requires the use of foreign languages in various spheres of human activity determines the attention paid by teachers and researchers to the dialogue as the most common form of spoken language. A number of specific features, such as a significant amount of etiquette formulas, stereotypes and communicative routines 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 based on communication strategies and routines. Our experience has shown, that of the use communicative routines as well as discursive strategies in the dialogues at the initial stage can facilitate the learning of Russian as a foreign language.