The authors offer ideas that can form the basis of such a course as "The basics of creating an educational and methodological complex" for teachers of foreign languages.The purpose of the article is to describe the objectives of such a course and how to achieve them. The methodological basis of the study is the analysis of two groups of teaching materials: 1) teaching materials in English, used as the main subjects for teaching "Foreign language" and "Practice of speech of the first foreign language" at "MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY" and 2) a group of textbooks, authored by adherents of the intensive method of teaching foreign languages. The choice of lexical and grammatical topics of the UMK data, their continuity from level to level is analyzed. A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the vocabulary used was carried out. The methods of teaching used in the data of the UMK, hourly planning of the development of the UMK by students are investigated. The structure of the UMC, the types of exercises used, and ways to control students' knowledge are determined. The novelty of the study is to identify the main tasks, the solution of which involves the creation of a CMM: 1. determine the age of the students 2. determine the final level of knowledge and skills to which it is necessary to bring the trainees 3. determine the initial level of knowledge and skills of the trainees 4. determine the rate of assimilation of the material 5. determine the vocabulary of the textbook 6. determine the structure of the grammar of the textbook 7. determine the types and types of basic exercises 8. determine the structure of the UMK 9. determine ways to control the knowledge and skills of the student
