Introduction There are a lot of different curriculum designs in the modern system of education as this field has a long history and can be characterised by a number of various changes which influenced the development of UK system of education. The development of the educational process is impossible without legal acts and political agreements. There have been a lot of different acts and reports which have established the educational system in United Kingdom and those which influenced and corrected it. Nevertheless, while considering some legal papers, it will be possible to see the ideas stated by Plato, Rousseau and Dewey, which can be considered as people who were at the origin of understanding the modern curriculum. The importance of these documents cannot be questioned as they played vital role in the development of education and its principles. It is important to understand that those who have developed the curricular and its main principles had to base on something. The changes the curriculum has to undergo are connected with the development in the cultural, social and political trends, still, the basic ideas in teaching foreign languages are unchanged. The main purpose of this paper is to understand why child-centred approach to education is the core idea of the modern curriculum, how new acts, reports and reviews changed the curricular and why motivation and creativity are considered to be the main ideas of the thematic approach to learning. To consider these issues, we are going to check the expressions of people who seem to be the first who talked about education as a system and expressed their thoughts in this direction, to follow the changes in the curriculum by means of exploring the legislative acts and reports along with reviews which add some ides to the required changes, and to point to the thematic learning as one of the best ways to give students knowledge they want and to make those interested in what they do. Curriculum Design To provide a specific and argumentative critic of curriculum design, it is important to check the development of the issue and the changes it has come through. Apart from the historical changes which influenced the curriculum design development, philosophical and political issues should be taken into account. Looking for the first argumentative discussion of education and the necessity to consider specific approaches and curriculum, it is important to refer to the ancient philosophers, like Plato, or Aristotle. The further changes of the educational curricular may be connected with such names as John Jacques Rousseau and John Dewey. Their vision of education and the curricular design have influences the content of the reports and other legal documents which can be considered as the basis for the modern vision of curricular design and the variety of those. Considering the main idea of the curriculum, it is possible to consider Plato’s dialogues. He is sure that spoken word is the best method for teaching, he disparages written text. The whole philosophy of Plato’s education is based on “spoken word” (Bailey 2010, p. 156). John Jacques Rousseau does not agree with Plato as he believes that learning should not be conducted through the w