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The present teaching manual is designated for learners of Pre-Intermediate/Intermediate levels studying at higher educational institutions.

The aim of the manual is to teach students how to extract information from the text, to understand its main content and to develop elementary skills of speaking on speciality.

The teaching manual includes fourteen texts followed by exercises, texts for supplementary reading, lexical-grammar tests and description of the technique of working at texts.

The work on vocabulary and phrases from the text assumes removal of some difficulties when working at the text. The way of introducing grammar makes it possible to facilitate the work at certain speech tasks. Other types of exercises include word formation, choice of synonyms and antonyms, substitution tables, filling the gaps, translation from English into Russian/Kazakh and from Russian/Kazakh into English and answering the questions.

The purpose of primary reading is to understand the main content of the text, which develops some skills of a purposeful intelligent reading.

It is not recommended to translate the text in details as sometimes it is not considered as one of the effective ways of working at the text. The work before reading the text and translation of some sentences considerably facilitate the process of mastering the language material.

Control and choice of texts for independent work are carried out at a teacher’s discretion.

At the final stage of work it is possible to speak on the topic chosen by learners or a teacher.