English practice for speakers of Russian for beginners, elementary and pre-intermediate students. The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, searching for an accommodation and a job, studying, working etc. The ALARM method utilize natural human ability to remember words used in texts repeatedly and systematically. The author had to compose each sentence using only words and rules explained in previous chapters. The second and the following chapters of the Elementary course have only 29 new words each. To make learning process more interesting author uses diverse ways of explaining new material such as games, songs, exercises, FAQs, jokes and sayings. Audio tracks are available on http: //vadim-zubakhin.lppbooks.com/1english_practice