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Evening Courses: Russian Language Course Syllabi
BEGINNERS RUSSIAN COURSE
| Course Name | Beginners Russian: Lessons 1 - 10 |
| Course Code(s) | RS111 / RS112 / RS113 |
| Term | Autumn Term |
| Term Dates | 11 October - 16 December 2010 |
| Course Book | RUSLAN Russian-1 by John Langran and Natalya Veshneyeva:
Course book
Workbook (ISBN 1-899785-20-5 and 1-889785-22-1)
CD
CD ROM
Supplementary Reader
Teacher's Own Materials |
| Chapters | 1 - 4 |
| Skills | Reading skills, handwriting skills, simple question- answer skills |
| Grammar | Alphabet, forming verbs in the present tense, forming verbs in the past tense, personal pronouns in the Nominative case, personal pronouns in the Genitive case. Genders - feminine, masculine, neuter nouns; recognition of infinitives; count from 1-100; the prepositional case (location), the Genitive case |
| Topics | The airport, street names and addresses, Russian names and family |
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| Course Name | Beginners Russian: Lessons 11 - 20 |
| Course Code(s) | RS121 / RS122 / RS123 |
| Term | Winter Term |
| Term Dates | 10 January - 17 March 2011 |
| Course Book | RUSLAN Russian-1 by John Langran and Natalya Veshneyeva:
Course book
Workbook (ISBN 1-899785-20-5 and 1-889785-22-1)
CD
CD ROM
Supplementary Reader
Teacher's Own Materials |
| Chapters | Chapters 5-8 |
| Skills | Reading skills, handwriting skills, simple question- answer skills, speaking skills |
| Grammar | Short adjectives, the Genitive constructions "I have, you have, etc," conjugation of verbs in the Present Tense, The Accusative case, the Adjectives in the Nominative case, the Prepositional case meaning "about", numbers above 100, the Nominative plural of nouns and adjectives, the Genitive Plural of masculine nouns |
| Topics | The hotel, the restaurant, about yourself, saying time and using telephones in Russia |
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| Course Name | Beginners Russian: Lessons 21 - 30 |
| Course Code(s) | RS131 / RS132 / RS133 |
| Term | Summer Term |
| Term Dates | 11 April - 16 June 2011 |
| Course Book | RUSLAN Russian-1 by John Langran and Natalya Veshneyeva:
Course book
Workbook (ISBN 1-899785-20-5 and 1-889785-22-1)
CD
CD ROM
Supplementary Reader
Teacher's Own Materials |
| Chapters | Chapters 9-10 |
| Skills | Reading, writing, speaking skills |
| Grammar | Reflexive verbs in the present tense, the Dative case, the use of verbs of "to love" and "to like", the Instrumental Case, the Genitive Plural of Feminine and Masculine nouns, the verb "to play" + Accusative/Prepositional case. Review of all case endings. The Declension of Nouns. The Declension of Personal Pronouns. The Declension of the question words "Who" and "What" |
| Topics | The Theatre; The House; Summary of the Zvonov's Family |
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LOWER INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN COURSE
| Course Name | Lower Intermediate Russian: Lessons 1 - 10 |
| Course Code(s) | RS211 / RS212 |
| Term | Autumn Term |
| Term Dates | 11 October - 16 December 2010 |
| Course Book | RUSLAN Russian-2 by John Langran and Natalya Veshneyeva. Coursebook and Workbook (ISBN 1-899785-52-3 and 1-889785-22-1) |
| Chapters | Chapters 1 - 4 |
| Skills | Talking about family and friends, age, interests and work. Using a Russian post office, changing money, talking about the weather, making comparisons, talking about different times of the year. Making arrangement and going out, talking about doing something on a particular day or in a particular month, telling the time minutes to and past the hour. |
| Grammar | The accusative singular of adjectives, the nominative and accusative plural of adjectives, the instrumental with быть (to be), интересоваться (to be interested in) etc; introduction of verb aspects - perfective and imperfective, plural of nouns and pronouns - dative, instrumental and prepositional, ordinal numbers; что with subordinate clauses, comparative adjectives and adverbs, numbers in the genitive case; future tenses, perfective and imperfective, genitive singular of adjectives. |
| Topics | Family album, family and friends, military service, St Petersburg, Pushkin - short biographical note. Post Office, currency exchange, Macdonald's and fast food in Russia, restaurant guide. Weather in Russia, in Britain and in the Crimea, the Crimea, Moscow weather forecast and a description of the weather in the Russian Federation. A railway trip, Moscow railway stations, Moscow metro |
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| Course Name | Lower Intermediate Russian: Lessons 11 - 20 |
| Course Code(s) | RS221 / RS222 |
| Term | Winter Term |
| Term Dates | 10 January - 17 March 2011 |
| Course Book | RUSLAN Russian-2 by John Langran and Natalya Veshneyeva. Coursebook and Workbook (ISBN 1-899785-52-3 and 1-889785-22-1) |
| Chapters | Chapters 5 - 7 |
| Skills | Talking about going to the doctor's, health, illnesses, symptoms, prescriptions, someone who has fallen ill. Going shopping, talking about sizes and colours. Buying tickets, travelling by train, finding travel information. |
| Grammar | The genitive, dative and instrumental singular of feminine adjectives, the dative singular of masculine adjectives. The prepositional singular of masculine adjectives, superlative adjectives. Introduction of the verbs of motion, the use of который (which), the genitive plural of adjectives. |
| Topics | The policlinic, the chemist's, the canteen. Shopping, Russian shops, the prices of food, advertisements, Cadbury's in Russia. Travelling by train, names of Russian towns, Sergiev Posad, the railway system in Russia. |
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| Course Name | Lower Intermediate Russian: Lessons 21 - 30 |
| Course Code(s) | RS231 / RS232 |
| Term | Summer Term |
| Term Dates | 11 April - 16 June 2011 |
| Course Book | RUSLAN Russian-2 by John Langran and Natalya Veshneyeva. Coursebook and Workbook (ISBN 1-899785-52-3 and 1-889785-22-1) |
| Chapters | Chapters 8 - 10 |
| Skills | Talking about work and leisure. Describing people and objects. Talking about air travel. General revision of the skills learned. |
| Grammar | Further verbs of motion, the conditional mood (particle бы), if or whether (particle ли), the animate accusative. Personal pronouns себя and сам, the possessive pronoun свой, negatives ничто, никто and никогда, the use of неужели and разве. The full declension of весь (all), expressing the date, prepositions that take the instrumental case |
| Topics | Work and leisure. Describing people, the Volga river, river cruise. Air travel, airports and flights, Russian newspapers, Aeroflot |
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UPPER INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN COURSE
| Course Name | Upper Intermediate Russian: Lessons 1 - 10 |
| Course Code(s) | RS311 / RS312 |
| Term | Autumn Term |
| Term Dates | 11 October - 16 December 2010 |
| Course Book | Poekhali! By S. Chernyshev and A. Chernysheva, Part 2, books I-II (ISBN 978-5-86547-435-7 and 978-5-86547-437-1) |
| Chapters | Chapters 1 - 9 |
| Skills | General discussion; expressing one's views; topic presentation; narration; listening comprehension; role-plays; writing short essays |
| Grammar | Time phrases; verbs of motion without prefix; word-formation; case revision |
| Topics | Work; profession; daily life; life style; leisure; shopping |
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| Course Name | Upper Intermediate Russian: Lessons 11 - 20 |
| Course Code(s) | RS321 / RS322 |
| Term | Winter Term |
| Term Dates | 10 January - 17 March 2011 |
| Course Book | Poekhali! By S. Chernyshev and A. Chernysheva, Part 2, books I-II (ISBN 978-5-86547-435-7 and 978-5-86547-437-1) |
| Chapters | Chapters 10 - 18 |
| Skills | General discussion; expressing one's views; topic presentation; narration; listening comprehension; role-plays; writing short essays |
| Grammar | Phrases expressing reason; perfective and imperfective Imperative; verbs of motion with prefix; phrases of concession; word-formation; case revision; indefinite pronouns; comparative and superlative adjectives |
| Topics | Food and eating habits; health; travelling; human body and looks |
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| Course Name | Upper Intermediate Russian: Lessons 21 - 30 |
| Course Code(s) | RS331 / RS332 |
| Term | Summer Term |
| Term Dates | 11 April - 16 June 2011 |
| Course Book | Poekhali! By S. Chernyshev and A. Chernysheva, Part 2, books I-II (ISBN 978-5-86547-435-7 and 978-5-86547-437-1) |
| Chapters | Chapters 19 - 27 |
| Skills | General discussion; expressing one's views; topic presentation; narration; listening comprehension; role-plays; writing short essays |
| Grammar | Short adjectives; reflexive pronouns; conditional phrases; subjunctive mood; negative constructions; participles; passive constructions; verbal adverbs; word-formation; case revision |
| Topics | A person's character; ecology and global problems; home and interior; children; language learning; world economy and life standard |
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ADVANCED RUSSIAN COURSE
| Course Name | Advanced Russian: Lessons 1 - 10 |
| Course Code(s) | RS411 / RS412 |
| Term | Autumn Term |
| Term Dates | 11 October - 16 December 2010 |
| Course Book | Rossiia: den´ segodniashnii (Present-Day Russia), Rodimkina, A., & N. Landsman, 2005, Zlatoust (ISBN 5-86547-352-2) |
| Chapters | Chapters 1 - 8 |
| Skills | Using the Russian language in speech and in writing to present viewpoints, develop arguments, analyse and evaluate; listening/reading and responding to spoken Russian/Russian written texts, covering different contexts, registers, styles and genres; understanding and applying the grammatical system and a range of structures in Russian; transferring meaning from English into Russian and vice versa. |
| Grammar | Revision of cases (nouns, adjectives, possessive and personal pronouns). Revision of aspects of verbs. Participles. Verbs of motion. Declension of cardinal numerals. |
| Topics | Russian family image. Marriage and pre-nuptial contract in Russia. Common-law marriage. The status of women in Russia. Children and parents. Dysfunctional families and homeless children. Russian agriculture and dachas. Russian middle class. |
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| Course Name | Advanced Russian: Lessons 11 - 20 |
| Course Code(s) | RS421 / RS422 |
| Term | Winter Term |
| Term Dates | 10 January - 17 March 2011 |
| Course Book | Rossiia: den´ segodniashnii (Present-Day Russia), Rodimkina, A., & N. Landsman, 2005, Zlatoust (ISBN 5-86547-352-2) |
| Chapters | Chapters 9 - 17 |
| Skills | Using the Russian language in speech and in writing to present viewpoints, develop arguments, analyse and evaluate; listening/reading and responding to spoken Russian/Russian written texts, covering different contexts, registers, styles and genres; understanding and applying the grammatical system and a range of structures in Russian; transferring meaning from English into Russian and vice versa. |
| Grammar | Collective numerals. Fractions and decimals. Relative pronouns. Comparative and superlative adjectives. Prepositions. Particles. Subordinate clauses. Verbs and cases. Adverbs. Gerunds. Reported speech. Conditional sentences. Conjunctions. |
| Topics | Young Russians and career. Education. Child prodigies. Informal youth groups. Flash mobs. Music. Siberia. Criteria of success. |
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| Course Name | Advanced Russian: Lessons 21 - 30 |
| Course Code(s) | RS431 / RS432 |
| Term | Summer Term |
| Term Dates | 11 April - 16 June 2011 |
| Course Book | Rossiia: den´ segodniashnii (Present-Day Russia), Rodimkina, A., & N. Landsman, 2005, Zlatoust (ISBN 5-86547-352-2) |
| Chapters | Chapters 18 - 25 |
| Skills | Using the Russian language in speech and in writing to present viewpoints, develop arguments, analyse and evaluate; listening/reading and responding to spoken Russian/Russian written texts, covering different contexts, registers, styles and genres; understanding and applying the grammatical system and a range of structures in Russian; transferring meaning from English into Russian and vice versa. |
| Grammar | Negative pronouns. Passive constructions. Concessive clauses. Pronouns and adverbs in complex sentences. Prefixes and suffixes. More conjunctions and relative pronouns. |
| Topics | Sports. Tourism. Russian nouveaux riches. Cars and people. Simulated space flights. Mobile phones. Television. Russian language today. |
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ADVANCED PLUS RUSSIAN COURSE
| Course Name | Advanced Plus Russian: Lessons 1 - 10 |
| Course Code(s) | RS511 / RS512 |
| Term | Autumn Term |
| Term Dates | 11 October - 16 December 2010 |
| Course Book | Starovoitova, I vashe mnenie (2006), published by Flinta-Nauka (ISBN: 9785893496765 or 5893496760), supplemented by newspapers, magazines, prose, poetry |
| Skills | Improving speaking, reading and listening skills, expanding vocabulary, revising Russian grammar |
| Grammar | Verbs of motion with prefixes, short forms of adjectives, determinative pronouns, complex numerals in various cases etc |
| Topics | Russian prose of 1920s-1940s (Alexander Kuprin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, Mikhail Zoshchenko); poetry by Bulat Okudzhava, Yuri Vizbor, Andrey Makarevich; Russia's image in Europe, Russia and CIS countries, life in modern Russia etc. |
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| Course Name | Advanced Plus Russian: Lessons 11 - 20 |
| Course Code(s) | RS521 / RS522 |
| Term | Winter Term |
| Term Dates | 10 January 2011 - 17 March 2011 |
| Course Book | Starovoitova, I vashe mnenie (2006), published by Flinta-Nauka (ISBN: 9785893496765 or 5893496760), supplemented by newspapers, magazines, prose, poetry |
| Skills | Improving speaking, listening, reading and presentational skills, expanding vocabulary, revising Russian grammar |
| Grammar | Perfective and imperfective verbs, subjunctive, conditionals, numerals in various cases, adverbs etc. |
| Topics | Modern Russian prose (Fazil Iskander, Sergey Dovlatov, Viktor Pelevin, Dmitry Bykov); poetry by Vladimir Vysotsky, Viktor Tsoy, Alexander Rosenbaum; Social problems in modern Russia, Migrants and Immigration policy in modern Russia, Mass media and Russian government. Military service and Army in modern Russia etc. |
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| Course Name | Advanced Plus Russian: Lessons 21 - 30 |
| Course Code(s) | RS531 / RS532 |
| Term | Summer Term |
| Term Dates | 11 April - 16 June 2011 |
| Course Book | Starovoitova, I vashe mnenie (2006), published by Flinta-Nauka (ISBN: 9785893496765 or 5893496760), supplemented by newspapers, magazines, prose, poetry |
| Skills | Improving speaking, listening, reading and presentational skills, expanding vocabulary, revising Russian grammar |
| Grammar | Irregular verbs, irregular plural nouns, participles, gerunds etc. |
| Topics | Russian humour (Mikhail Zadornov, Arkady Akranov, Mikhail Zhvanetsky), idioms and proverbs, formal letter writing etc. ; education in modern Russia, global warming and environmental problems, elections etc. |
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