Abstract-Teaching English as a foreign language using modern Internet technologies is considered in the paper. A special attention is paid to the Webquest-based role play organized by means of up-to-date Internet technologies as an approach to raise technical students' motivation to studying foreign languages. Emphasis is upon applying this approach to organizing conference weeks at National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU). An overview of the Webquest-based role play activities is also given in the paper.
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