Russian
Level I-a
Taught by: Yulia Kornievskaya
16 hours of instruction
Course
Description
Russian
Level I-a is a beginning-level language training course geared to
assist students in becoming conversationally proficient
by introducing the basic elements of structure and a vocabulary of
100-300 words. Students will be able to satisfy immediate needs by
speaking, reading, writing, and understanding a number of patterns
of speech and rehearsed expressions. This course will help to increase
awareness of cultural and social differences and characteristics.
Level I-a Objectives
At
the end of 16 hours of instruction, students are expected to accomplish
the following tasks with simple statements and questions:
- Using simple greetings and salutations in social and professional
situations
- Responding
to basic expressions of courtesy
- Responding to requests for individual and family biographical information
- Utilizing
numbers to tell the time of the day and shop
- Asking and telling the time of the day and the times for various
events
- Expressing dates, days of the week, months, seasons, and years
- Describing the weather using simple words and phrases
- Utilizing basic colors to shop
Grammar
Through
practice of the above tasks, students will be introduced to the following
elements of structure:
- The
Russian alphabet and pronunciation
- Formal and familiar forms of address
- Gender of nouns
- Singular and plural forms of nouns
- Numbers
1-100
- Question
words: how, where, who, which, when
- Prepositions
used in giving personal information: from
- Prepositions in telling time
- Days of the week, months of the year, seasons
- Possessive pronouns
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