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Abstract: The article describes one of several projects aimed at development of communicative competence of students of the 8-th and 9-th grades of school. Implementation stages of the "Report as a Genre of Oral Presentation of Information" project are described. The goal of the project is studying of the rules of creating, presenting and evaluating academic reports. The genre is defined by three types of academic reports described in I.V. Nikolayenko's thesis: popular science report, academic science classification based report and academic science comparative-based report. The article contains some results of students' project activity: classification table with different kinds of academic reports, statements in the academic report genre made by the participants on different stages of the project, the analysis of the statements made by the students according to criteria which were developed within the project. The subject and key communicative competence skills acquired by students in different stages of the project are listed.