Russian 3 (3cr)

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:
- 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

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)

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. Students are able to tell many sides and deeply about cultural themes.
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 easy texts. Students are able to write understandable texts even they still make some mistakes. Students are able to tell the most important facts about cultural themes.
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 are able to read and write texts but the amount of mistakes can make communication difficult. Students can tell some facts about cultural themes.

Materials

- Alestalo: Kafe Piter 1. Finnlectura 2011.

Teaching methods

- Oral practice such as dialogues, pair and group work
- Written assignments

Further information

The course may partially count as R&D credits.