The manual is intended for students of the II year and is designed for 50 hours of classroom classes. The purpose of the manual is to further improve reading skills, as well as oral and written speech, characteristic of the sublanguage of scientific literature. The manual was developed on the basis of original articles on the most pressing problems of modern science and technology: the pace of development of R&D, outstanding discoveries of recent years, nuclear energy, laser technology, environmental problems, etc.