Such a definition of the learning goal limits the student's activity, as a result of which his significance, both personal and socially conscious, is lost.The only way out of such a problematic situation is to introduce a new, i.e. competent approach to general secondary education.

Since the purpose of education is now correlated with the formation knowledge of key competencies, a modern understanding of the training of a hundred is built on the basis of the formation of students' professional tendencies. The competence-based approach assumes that the student does not master specific forms of knowledge and skills, and mastering them in a complex. Concerning the system of teaching methods is changing, more precisely; the system of teaching methods is defined differently. At the core selection and design of teaching methods lies the structure of the corresponding general competencies and the functions they perform in education. The following article is devoted to the formation of professional competence among students - future
translators using a teaching thesaurus.