Study Guide

Objective

Students will acquire further knowledge of basic vocabulary grammatical structures for practical situations. Upon completion of the course, students will be competent in handling normal situations of writing and speaking. They will also understand clear speech and simple texts.

Content

Students will continue learning about the Russian culture and society, as well as the following topics:
- Shopping
- Communicating at fairs and exhibitions
- Sightseeing
- Talking about interests, the weather
- Living and the environment
- Birthdays
- At the chemist's and seeing a doctor

- Singular dative of nouns
- Singular prepositional of adjectives
- Genitive
- Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
- Short adjectives
- Conditionals
- Demonstrative pronouns
- Relative pronouns
- Conjunctions
- Particles

Qualifications

Russian 1 and Russian 2

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1: Students are able to communicate in some everyday oral situations when helped. Students make mistakes in pronunciation. Students understand some slowly spoken speech and can find the theme and understand some words and expressions in written texts. Students know some cultural differences

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3: Students are able to communicate independently in everyday oral situations, mistakes don?t disturb communication. Pronunciation is mainly understandable. Students can understand main points in a slowly spoken speech and texts. Students are able to write understandable texts even they still make some mistakes. Students know the most common cultural differences.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5: Students are able to active, independent and understandable communication in everyday oral situations. Pronunciation is like a native Russian speaker. Students understand speech in normal tempo and written texts. They can write understandable text which may have minor mistakes. They have deep and versatile knowledge of Russian culture

Materials

Jegorenkov & Piispanen: Pora! 1, Venäjää aikuisille. Otava. 2013 or newer
Jegorenkov & Piispanen: Pora! 2, Venäjää aikuisille. Otava. 2013 or newer