• ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the language nature as a social phenomenon, its connection with speech, culture and social development of the people;
• ability to describe the fundamental interaction between language and the world; the origin and development of language, its levels; basic units of language and speech; functional speech properties.

• prerequisites: - (none)
• co-requisites: Introduction to Linguistics, Modern English

Phonetics: the system of consonants and vowels; modification of sounds, pronunciation variants; the emotional intonation of connected speech. Morphology: language and speech, grammar as a part of linguistics; parts of speech and their classification principles; noun, article, verb, adjective, pronoun, numeral, adverb; the functional parts of speech. Syntax: the basic concepts of syntax; phrase, sentence; the secondary parts of the sentence; complex sentence; the sentence pragmatics; sentence within the text, text.

1. Bowler B. New Headway Pronunciation Upper Intermediate Student’s Practice Book / B. Bowler, S. Cunningham. – Oxford University Press, 2005. – 230 p.
2. Matthews P. H. Morphology / P.H. Matthews. – Cambridge, 1991. – 264 p.
3. Nida E. Morphology: The descriptive analysis of words / E. Nida. - Ann Arbor, 1949. – 342 p.
4. Thomson A.J., Martinet A.V. A Practical English Grammar for Foreign Students / A.J. Thomson, A.V. Martinet. – Oxford University Press, 1960. – 311 p.

• continuous assessment (45%), homework, written interim control and recitation (25%);
• final assessment (55% of exam): testing (10%), descriptive writing tasks (20%), grammatical tasks (15%), lexical tasks (10%)