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Abstract: The article deals with the problem of professionally-oriented text-book design for teaching French as a second foreign language for beginners in the context of the Ural State Economic University. The objective is to project and create the conditions to enable students, studying restaurant business in a nonlinguistic university, to acquire communicative competence to be able to communicate orally and in writing in a foreign language to solve problems of interpersonal and intercultural interaction. Principles, specificity and difficulties in organization of the process of teaching French as a second foreign language after English or German language are explored. Objectives, principles, methods and techniques of professionally-oriented teaching basic kinds of speech activity are discussed. The components of foreign language communicative competence and its specificity in relation to the sphere of professional activity are highlighted. Special attention is given to the selection of content for the text-book being designed. The authors analyze the results of experiential learning and compare the levels of achievement and mastery of a foreign language communicative competence in the groups under study. It is concluded that to develop effective text-book the following issues must be considered: the future specialty of students, their professional motivation, level of language acquisition, especially of the second foreign language, and peculiarities of foreign language communicative competence development in the professional sphere.