A series of exercises and tasks for development pre-service engineers’ English professionally oriented reading competence

This paper presents the series of English activities “Instruction and Maintenance Manual” for the development of English professionally oriented reading competence for Master students of specialty 133 Industrial Engineering that study at Educational Syllabus Engineering of Food Production. The steps of development pre-service engineers’ English professionally oriented reading competence have been determined: pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading. The pre-reading step contains tasks that motivate students to read a text and actualize their background and contains exercises aimed at thedevelopment of lexical and grammar skills. The while-reading step consists of tasks for development of skills for different reading types: The post-reading step consists of tasks aimed at activation and accumulation of information received from the read text, the further development and improvement of different reading types. All exercises and tasks are based on the selected authentic professional texts.