Students’ motivation can be crucial in teaching a foreign language. One of the key objectives of any teacher is to raise language awareness and to develop the audience’s interest, motivation and commitment to studying. Partly because of the rocketing development of innovative technology, nowadays many regular study texts and handbooks are rapidly getting outdated, therefore it must be the teacher’s major priority to implement study materials which will be up to date, interactive, engaging and preferably communicative, to help the students reach the study goals and to meet the learning targets. The article focuses of the benefits of using TED talks in teaching English as a foreign language. This online education platform provides the teachers with study material of the brand new kind. Covering a vast number of subjects and topics, the audio and video lectures on TED tend to be cutting edge, innovative and thought-provoking, leading students to ardent discussions and encouraging creative ideas and observations, thus raising study motivation and interest to the subject. There is an example of listening and speaking classroom activities based on a TED lecture about happiness.