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The educational material of the textbook is aimed at the development of creative abilities, self-education skills, interest of students in the subject. The theoretical material is structured into sections with the key understanding, some information is arranged in the form of tables and diagrams, which favours the understanding of information. The principle of individual orientation of learning is realised through such forms of work as research, work in groups, self-evaluation. Considerable attention is paid to the tasks of communicating, monitoring, reasoning and comparing. Interactive tasks, thematic headings enrich the text of the textbook, active learning activity of eighth-graders. The textbook contains tasks that encourage pupils to express themselves on topics related to their life experience. The individual exercises give the possibility to choose one or another variant of the task, the way of its performance, the topic of expression depending on their abilities and abilities.