Purpose of the discipline: the general purpose of teaching and studying the discipline is to prepare competitive specialists and creative individuals for effective communication in a foreign language in an educational and professional environment. The program of the discipline is designed to achieve the level of proficiency in the language of the Russian language B2+.

Interdisciplinary connections: the educational discipline "Foreign Language" integrates a large number of basic concepts of general theoretical and special disciplines such as: "International Economics", "Microeconomics", "Macroeconomics", "Enterprise Economics", "Sociology", "Political Science", "Practical Rhetoric", etc.

Objectives of the discipline:

– to provide a basic lexical repertoire for reading and understanding the main content of original texts (partially adapted) in the specialty and communication on professional topics;

– to teach applicants to express themselves in accordance with the situation, avoiding gross errors in formulating opinions;

– to develop the ability to produce sufficiently clear, meaningful written speech with proper presentation of the material;

– to promote the formation of foreign language professional communicative competence, which is considered as language behavior and requires the acquisition of linguistic, sociolinguistic, intercultural and pragmatic competencies.

The list of competencies that a student will acquire after mastering the academic discipline:

to perform a wide range of speech functions (in speaking, listening, reading and writing), which ensure independent language behavior in an international environment;

use basic lexical, grammatical, semantic, orthographic, phonological and orthoepic means of a foreign language to combine statements into a logically unified discourse on a wide range of topics related to learning and social life experience;

develop curricula for linguistic self-development, independent updating of knowledge in a foreign language using various mechanisms of memorization and self-assessment;

enter, maintain and conclude a discussion/conversation in a foreign language in interpersonal communication; formulate own conclusions and proposals in a foreign language;

put forward arguments taking into account the socio-cultural characteristics of the interlocutors;

search for information and effectively use foreign language resources (dictionaries, reference books, the Internet);

systematize and organize materials for preparing reports and presentations for an international audience.

Subject of the discipline. The subject of the discipline is foreign discourse, necessary for the formation of professionally oriented communicative speech competence (linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic) to ensure effective communication in a variety of modern economic problems.

The content of the academic discipline by topics:

Topic 1. Travel. Means of travel.

Topic 2. Food. Shopping.

Topic 3. Geographical position of Great Britain. Geographical position of the USA.

Topic 4. Political system of Great Britain. Political system of the USA.

Topic 5. Economy of Great Britain. Economy of the USA.

Topic 6. Economy of Ukraine and Ukraine in the world economy. Topic 7. Types of economic systems.

Topic 8. Forms of business organization.

Topic 9. Great Britain and the USA. Art and the education system.

Topic 10. European Union.

Topic 11. Adam Smith's Theory.

Topic 12. Office.

Topic 13. Business Meetings.

Topic 14. Personnel Management.

Topic 15. The Place of Marketing and Advertising in Business.

Topic 16. Transportation and Distribution of Products.