Study Guide

Objective

After completing the course, the student
- is able to communicate in simple everyday oral and written situations
- masters the following structures from basic grammar: accusative of personal pronouns, pronouns: accusative and prepositional, inflection and time forms of verbs, the inflection of adjectives in the nominative of a unit, plural of nouns and adjectives, basic movement verbs
- can travel in Russian
- is able to do business in Russian
- can speak Russian on the phone
- speaks months and days of the week in Russian
- can tell about living, work, family, language skills
- understand a written text in a general language with the help of a dictionary and be able to write short written messages
- understand Russian customary culture

Content

- Increasing the basic grammar/vocabulary skills
- Shopping
- Studies and language skills
- Leisure time and work
- Time, days, months
- In a restaurant and café
- Asking and describing directions
- Numbers 20-
- Traveling by different means of transport
- Cultural knowledge

Materials

Alestalo, M., Kafe Piter, 2020.

Teaching methods

Lessons. Individual oral and written tasks.

Exam schedules

Written and oral exams at the end of the course.
Retake 1 approximately 1 month after the course end.
Retake 2 approximately 2 months after the course end.

Completion alternatives

Competence demonstration possible

Student workload

80 hours
- 30 hours of lessons
- 50 hours of independent studies

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (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.

Assessment criteria, good (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.

Assessment criteria, excellent (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.

Assessment methods and criteria

exams (oral and written), active participation in lessons

Qualifications

Russian 1