The article raises the issues of enriching the educational environment of teaching philology students by the use of so-called unconventional methods. The analysis includes the three following methods: Callan, Wolf’s (the name derives from its initiator whose surname is Wilk in Polish) and Community Language Learning. The partial use of these methods in work with students stimulates their emotions, makes the learning conditions more realistic and thereby contributes to the optimisation of the second language acquisition process in terms of such aspects as: speaking, grammar consolidation, in a foreign language.