The basic skills of teaching a foreign language is - speaking. Oral communication allows students to express themselves clearly and to have no difficulty in engaging in dialogue.The main purpose of the article is to develop students' communication skills and abilities in foreign language lessons, to show how to effectively organize discussions, debates in the classroom, taking into account the language level of students. In the article was also considered the types of discussions in the world pedagogical practice by the author. There were regarded some of the difficulties in the development of students' speaking skills in foreign languages, especially Chinese.