In this article the author describes the development and implementation of the experimental program "Travelling around English-Speaking Countries" in the course of humanitarian training of school students in teaching a foreign language in the modern system of additional foreign-language education. She contributes to the development of pupils’ abilities to work independently, to activization of their productive abstract thinking and the highest intellectual processes. This program also helps to develop pupils’ research abilities, to form their studying basic skills together with the highest intellectual operations, to saturate training material by the tasks of an open type, to activate the use of various forms and technologies of the presentation and introduction in practice of the results of work. With the researcher it is emphasized that in training school students the large role is played by mutual trust, humanitarian culture, cooperation, tolerance in the system of additional foreign-language education. It is necessary to create such an atmosphere which would help to remove the psychological barriers of communication, to develop mental abilities of pupils, to create foreign-language communicative abilities. The author of the article places an emphasis that school students are developed with the help of reasonable special humanitarian technologies which are based on the specifics of teaching a foreign language the pupils. It helps them to achieve good results in the acquisition of foreign languages. One of the main objectives of the modern foreign-language education is the upbringing of the school student who is characterized by the versatile creative activity, the created civic stand, strong humanistic beliefs, the ability to carry out an exit out of the limits of the standard activity. Such a student creates and transfers the values, understanding and competently estimating the phenomena of the modern cultural practice. In this regard the big relevance is acquired by the humanitarian approach in the school foreign-language education promoting familiarizing school students with culture. Thanks to the developed experimental program the pupils begin to realize themselves and their place in the world of the human relations and the nature.

Keywords: a foreign language, a school student, additional foreign-language education, humanitarian culture, experimental program, a dialogue of cultures, authentic material.