This article discusses effective modern pedagogical technologies that a teacher of Russian language and literature can use in his/her work. Particular attention is paid to the technologies of the activity method, which form in schoolchildren the ability to independently obtain new knowledge, collect the necessary information, put forward hypotheses, draw conclusions and inferences, not get lost in a situation of uncertainty, be able to establish effective communications with different people, and remain moral.
The article examines the individual style, creative manner of A.P. Chekhov, the features of the language of the great writer's works, to whose work scientists have devoted their research from the point of view of the onomasiological context, textual syntagmatics of works. Chekhov's language is extremely expressive in the nature of the linguistic means used, as well as in the way they are used.