The article deals with one of the actual problems of teaching Russian as a foreign lan-guage: the principles of building a system of exercises in a modern textbook as a foreign language and the specificity of used exercises in an integrated lesson in the process of working on a literary text. In this regard, educational material is presented on one of the topics of the literary-thematic module. The re-commended system of exercises in general and the individual series within it methodically in a new way, modernly encourage students to actively communicate, to express their point of view, their opinion, which is the main goal of teaching students to communicate in the studied Russian language.