Suppose that a continuous 27r-periodic function f on the real axis changes its monotonicity at points y;:-π≤ y;<y;<… < y;<π,s ∈ IN.In this PaPer,for each n≥N,a trigonometric polynomial P;of order cn is found such that:P;has the same monotonicity as f,everywhere except,perhaps,the small intervals(y;-π/n,y;+π/n)and‖f-P;‖<c(s)ω;(f,π/n),where N is a constant depending only on mini=1,...,2s {y;-y;},c,c(s) are constants depending only on s,ω;(f;,·) is the modulus of smoothness of the 3-rd order of the function f,and ||·|| is the max-norm.