This monograph is intended for students the vocabulary of the language and the word-formation mechanism serving it. As a system vocabulary is in constant motion and the English language has a complex and diverse system of word-formation means. New lexical units are created by means of all language levels - phonetic morphemic lexical-semantic and syntactic. Word-formation means there are three main types of word-formation: phonetic morphological semantic. The monograph is a collection that contains theoretical and practical material for work with students in European groups according to the current program.