The purpose of the program is the formation of intercultural and communicative competence of students in the process of foreign language education at a sufficient level and the level of basic sufficiency. Depending on the level of training, the student at the time of completion of the course reaches the B2 level of pan-European competence if the student has a language level at the start above the level of B1 pan-European competence.

The objectives of the program are:

the development of students of vocabulary and linguistic features of a foreign language and the formation

communicative and functional competence;

the formation of intercultural competence as the ability to intercultural communication in a person, defined as a subject of intercultural communication.

the formation of argumentation skills in a foreign language and understanding of linguistic and cultural

features of the country of the studied language.

According to the results of mastering the program, the student has the following learning outcomes:

1) systematizes the conceptual framework for understanding the communicative intentions of the partner, the authors of texts at this level;

2) compares and selects the forms and types corresponding to the communicative intention speech/communication with an adequate type of speech logical construction;

3) adequately expresses his own communicative intentions with the correct selection and appropriate using appropriate language tools, taking into account their compliance with the socio-cultural standards of the language being studied;

4) classifies the levels of use of real facts, references to authoritative opinion; speech communicative and cognitively justified behavior;

5) reveals the patterns of development of a foreign language, paying attention to the study of stylistic originality;

6) knows the methods of linguistic description and analysis of the causes and consequences of events in texts of a scientific and social nature;

7) expresses in a foreign language possible solutions to modern problems based on the use of reasoned information;

8) evidence-based use of linguistic material with reasoned language means sufficient for this level, timely and independently corrects errors in 75% of error-free statements;

9) owns the strategy and tactics of constructing a communicative act, correctly prepares speech intonationally, relying on lexical sufficiency in the framework of speech subjects and grammatical correctness.