On October 22, 2021, as part of the implementation of the Republican campaign “Reading Generation 2021”, teacher of special disciplines M.A. Zelenaya. A Book Dating was held based on S. King's story “The Apt Pupil”. Second-year students of the civil engineering department took an active part in this event. The guys discussed the work they had read in an informal setting and shared their impressions of the book. In addition, the guests of the event, Deputy Director for Educational Work N.V. Byvaltseva, took part in the discussion of the work with great interest. and the head of the Linguistic Center Bektenova B.O.