The relevance of the research topic is due to increasing contacts between Russia and China in all areas of social development, including the education system. In this regard, the demand for teaching Chinese among Russian students is also increasing. Accordingly, the problem of selecting relevant teaching methods arises. The purpose of the article is to present the "flipped classroom " method, taking into account not only traditional approaches, but also the digitalization of the educational environment. The "flipped classroom " method is one of the methods of inverted (or reverse) teaching, built on a constructivist approach to learning, encouraging student independence and changing the positions of the subject and object of learning. The "flipped class " method is one of the methods of inverted (or reverse) learning based on a constructivist approach to learning that encourages students' independence and changes the positions of the subject and object of learning. The "flipped class" method has recently gained popularity due to the integration of new educational technologies, in particular multimedia and the Internet, in the classroom. The article analyzes and lists the advantages of using the "flipped class" method for foreign language education (using the example of the Chinese language). It is noted that this method contributes to the development of foreign language communicative competence due to a more effective distribution of classroom and independent workload. The study is devoted to the description of the application of the "flipped class" method in the framework of the discipline "Second Foreign Language" in Chinese classes at the UrFU Department of Foreign Languages and Translation. Educational and methodological developments are offered to study the verb "to have " in Chinese as part of independent preparation for the lesson and to test the theoretical knowledge obtained. The results of this research and development for classes presented in it may be useful to methodologists and novice teachers of Chinese as a second foreign language.