The manual consists of eight sections built around original texts on the history of psychology, lexical and grammatical exercises for them, as well as exercises for developing conversational skills. The "Appendix" offers texts that provide additional information about the well-known psychologists mentioned in the lessons, and at the end of the manual is a dictionary that makes it easier to work on texts. For the initial stage of learning to read special psychological literature in order to form the necessary lexical and grammatical base among students and the ability to maintain a conversation on the topic under study.