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Designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language, this intensive foundation course in Russian has an original approach to language learning and provides access to Russian life, culture, history and society.
Sommario
Glossary
Unit 1: Grammar The Russian alphabet, pronunciation of Russian, intonation; writing Russian; introductory grammatical points, including gender
Topics and Functions Asking, stating identifying and clarifying; negating; pointing and locating; greeting and introducing, names
Unit 2: Topics and Functions Asking for things, location
Grammar The case system, the nominative, accusative and prepositional case; the present tense of verbs, 1st conjugation
Unit 3: Topics and Functions Talking about people, jobs; asking for things; possessions
Grammar Animate accusative, genitive, nominative and inanimate accusative plural; accusative, genitive and dative of pronouns; possessives, demonstratives; possession, existence, availability, lack
Unit 4: Topics and Functions Description of people; languages; study; time of day and days; topic of conversation/knowledge
Grammar Adjectives, adverbs; present tense of 2nd conjugation; reflexive verbs; prepositional case
Unit 5: Topics and Functions Location, motion, directions, transport; shopping; daily routines; plans; postcard writing
Grammar Constructions of location and direction; verbs of motion; quantity, numerals; time constructions; past tense
Unit 6: Topics and Functions Plans, intention; free time and interests; like, dislike, preference, opinion; narration in the past tense
Grammar Aspect and formation of aspect pairs; short forms adjectives; negation; verbs of motion; instrumental case; time constructions
Unit 7: Topics and Functions Telephone; arrangements, suggestions; meeting, joint action; health; weather; narration; appreciation, opinion
Grammar Dative case; future tense; indirect speech; imperatives; prepositions; necessity and obligation; wish and desire, subjunctive and conditional; compound verbs of motion, time constructions; conjunctions
Unit 8: Topics and Functions Gifts, shopping, description; comparison; biography; addresses etc.; describing people; work and money; household; food, drink and eating out
Grammar Genitive plural; prepositions; expression of need; numerals; comparatives and superlatives; animative accusative; constructions of time; nominative/instrumental in predicate; participles and gerunds
Unit 9: Topics and Functions Location, direction, transport; travel, holidays and description of place
Grammar Prepositions of location and direction; transport; travel, holidays and description of place
Unit 10: Topics and Functions & Grammar: Study; introduction to discursive Russian; views of Russia today Answer Key Vocabulary Index Appendices
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Robin Aizlewood teaches at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL. He is a specialist in Russian language teaching and course design, with very wide experience at university and school levels and in examining. He has been active over many years in the promotion of Russian and modern languages generally. Recent publications include
Two Essays on Maiakovskii's verse, articles on Russian identity in Russian thought, on Pushkin's
Queen of Spades, and on
ab initio Russian.
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Designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language, this intensive foundation course in Russian has an original approach to language learning and provides access to Russian life, culture, history and society.
