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The purpose of the paper is to investigate the role of using the authentic video maerials in ESP classes at a higher school for enhancing future civil engineers’ professional communication in English and improving their English proficiency. The paper provides a brief overview of how “authentic” is defined by other authors, clarifies the notion of the “authentic material”, indicates what factors determine the authentic nature, describes the special features of using video materials in ESP classes, determines their possible advantages (e.g. creating specific language environment, increasing motivation and attention, developing memory, activating the learning process, etc), disadvantages and main challenges. The research also outlines the criteria of the selection of the video in an ESP class (authenticity; compliance with the curriculum, syllabus, thematic correspondence to students’ specialty and their interests; information novelty and relevance; the correspondence of language material to speech rules and students’ level of knowledge, and their readiness to perceive information from the video; appropriate length of the video; image and sound quality of the chosen video). The author defines the objectives and special features of the pre-viewing, while viewing and post-viewing stages of the work with authentic video materials, offers the typology and complex of tasks used at each stage. The pre-viewing tasks are designed to introduce new vocabulary to students, practice new vocabulary in lexical exercises, practice predicting the plot and speculating about the content of the video segment which is going to be watched, generate interest in a topic and initiate authentic discussion. The while viewing tasks are designed to search information, select and transform a language material, develop receptive skills, as well as communication, social and cultural skills. The post-viewing tasks are aimed at discussing the topic and developing the speaking skills (both monologue 1 Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, National Aviation University, Ukraine

USE OF AUTHENTIC VIDEO MATERIALS IN TEACHING ESP FOR FUTURE CIVIL ENGINEERS