The proposed manual is intended for work with bachelors and masters studying in the specialty “biology”. The collection consists of adapted and original texts. Each lesson includes a text for active processing and a text for oral and written translation. Lexical and grammatical material, a series of exercises for texts and an active dictionary have been developed. At the end, additional material is given - original texts from English and American sources and the Internet for preparing reports and writing abstracts. The manual allows you to acquire skills in reading and translating specialized literature, master terminology and develop oral speech.