Specificity of articulation of sounds; Lexical minimum in the amount of 4000 educational lexical units of general and terminological character. The concept of differentiation of vocabulary by spheres of application. The concept of free and stable word combinations, phraseological units. The concept of the main ways of word formation; the main grammatical phenomena characteristic of professional speech. The notion of everyday-literary, official-business, scientific style, style of fiction. The main features of scientific style. Culture and traditions of the countries of the target language, rules of speech etiquette. Speaking: dialogic and monologic speech. Basics of public speaking: oral communication, report. Listening: understanding of dialogic and monologic speech in the sphere of everyday and professional communication. Reading: types of texts: uncomplicated pragmatic texts and texts on the broad and narrow profile of the specialty. Writing: types of speech texts: annotation, abstract, theses, messages, private letter, business letter, biography.