1. Ability to written and oral communication in English.
2. Ability to use a variety of communication methods, including modern information technologies for effective communication in English both in professional and social levels.

- prerequisite: Foreign language for professional purposes, part 2
- corequisite: none

The course has a practical focus providing students with the possibility of acquisition of general professional communicative competence in using English. Studies carried out by integrating language skills and linguistic knowledge within familiar general thematic and situational context according to some academic and professional fields of students’ activity. Self-education is considered to be an integral part of the curriculum.

1. Fabre E. M. Professional English in Use: ICT: Intermediate to Advanced / E. M. Fabre, S. R. Esteras. - Cambridge University Press, 2007. – 118 p.
2. Foley M., Hall D. My Grammar Lab, intermediate, B1/B2 / M. Foley., D. Hall. – Pearson Education Limited, 2012. – 371 p.
3. Ricca-McCarthy T., Duckworth M. English for Telecoms and Information Technologies / T. Ricca-McCarthy, M. Duckworth. – Oxford University Press, 21013. – 95 p.
4. Vince M. Macmillan English Grammar in Context. Intermediate, with key / M. Vince. - Macmillan Education, 2008. – 232 p.

• continuous assessment (40%), homework, written interim control and recitation (25%);
• final assessment (60%): testing (15%), descriptive writing tasks (20%), grammatical tasks (15%), lexical tasks (10%)