This tutorial is intended for correspondence students who continue to study English at a non-language university. The purpose of the manual is to systematize basic knowledge in the field of English grammar and vocabulary, as well as the formation of foreign-language competencies related to the development of the ability to independently work with texts of a general cultural and regional orientation and professionally oriented texts, as well as basic communication skills. The manual consists of 4 sections, each of which contains reference grammatical material and training exercises for self-control, texts and an active vocabulary for them within the framework of the proposed conversational topics. The manual contains a large amount of text material for independent work.