For free orientation in the flow of information people should possess information competence as one of the components of professionalism. In this regard, the article reveals the structure and content of the information competence of students, including motivational and values, cognitive, activity, communicative and health saving components that are in relationships and are aimed at ensuring the integrity and continuity of the process of students' information competence forming in conditions of modern high school.The article also describes the problem of the teachers' functions' expansion involved in this process. The article can be recommended for use in modern practice of educational institutions, as well as in the system of teacher training.

⎯Communicative foreign language teaching requires creating conditions in the learning process which are close to real ones. The use of authentic video records can solve several problems at once in the educational process: non-native speakers are actively involved in the culture of the language being studied, learn to evaluate the communicative act in the complex of its components, drill the skills of listening comprehension and foreign speach understanding. According to psychologists, up to 80% of the information is transmitted non-verbally in the process of communication. Due to this fact we find it possible to introduce the definition of nonverbal communicative competence, this will be considered in the study.