This methodological development is intended for students of the 1st and 2nd courses of the Geological Faculty of Voronezh State University . It is an integral part of the comprehensive textbook "Introduction to Geology" for students of the Faculty of Geology and includes texts on geological specialties. Selected from the original literature and , which are additional material on the topics studied and fully correspond to the topics of lectures , read by students in the course of general geology in Russian. After each text, students are offered questions for a general understanding of what they read. Texts include the vocabulary of the main manual and serve to consolidate it. The purpose of the development is to develop skills of self-reading and development of oral speech skills within the framework of the completed topic . This development is recommended for home reading