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Russian 3 (LL253)

Summary

Level:

This module follow on naturally from Russian 2 / Russian Beginners Accelerated. It will offer continuity of learning for those who have completed the second level module and an opportunity for those with some prior knowledge to work at an appropriate level to develop their knowledge of the language.

Main Objectives:

This module will offer an opportunity for students not specialising in foreign languages to improve their communicative competence as a supplement to their studies in other spheres. The objectives of the module are to enable the students to develop competence in a range of language tasks performed in familiar work and social contexts, to extend skills in reading and listening comprehension and to consolidate and extend the knowledge and use of grammar and syntax.

Credits:

30 CREDITS, also available for 24 CREDITS

Teaching:

One 3-hour language class each week for 21 weeks

Students are reminded that 1 credit = 10 hours of study, therefore the minimum expected amount of study is 240 hours, which averages over 10 hours per week. A substantial amount of independent study is therefore required. Students can make use of Moodle (a virtual learning environment) to facilitate this.

Tutors:

Natasha Moore

Course Texts

  • The Way to Russia: Russian language text-book part 2. Antonova V.E., Nakhabina M.M. St.Petersburg: Zlatoust. ISBN: 978-5-86547-400-5
  • The Way to Russia: Russian language text-book - part 3 vol 1. Antonova V.E., Nakhabina M.M. St.Petersburg: Zlatoust. ISBN: 978-5-86547-504-0
Additional material
  • Russian Grammar Laminate Reference Chart (Quickstudy: Academic)
  • Let's repeat cases and prepositions: corrective course for students of Russian. V.S. Ermachenkova, Zlatoust, ISBN: 978-5-86547-784-6
  • Russian Grammar in Tables and Charts. Reference book for foreign learners. N.S.Novikova, T.V.Shustikova. Moscow: Russian Language, 2015. ISBN: 978-5-88337-310-6
  • Russian grammar in pictures. G.G. Malyshev. Zlatoust. ISBN: 978-5-86547-505-7
  • Grammar: "A Living Russian Grammar". Natalia Bitekhetina, Larissa Grouchevskaia. CREF
  • Russian Grammar, Schaum's outlines, James S. Levine, ISBN: 0-07-038238-7
  • Amazing stories: 116 texts for reading, learning and entertainment for beginners-intermediate. N.S.Novikova, O.M.Shcherbakova. Moscow 2017. ISBN: 978-5-89349-393-1
  • About Russia and Russians. Malyshev G.G., Malysheva N.G. ( B1). Zlatoust, ISBN: 978-5-86547-605-4

Course Description

This module offers students the opportunity

  • to practise their communication skills, both listening and speaking, in order to take part in conversation and discussion in a range of predictable social and work-related contexts;
  • to improve their ability and acquire confidence in using Russian, with due regard to accuracy of grammar and syntax and to familiarise them with essential reading techniques that will support further independent study of the written language;
  • learn about culture and contemporary society of the Russian speaking world.

The stimulus material (aural, written and visual) will not only provide the basis for consolidation of Russian grammar but also give the students further insight into everyday life in the Russian speaking countries.

Successful completion of Russian 3 qualifies students to progress to Russian 4.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

  • apply a basic knowledge of grammar appropriate to the level
  • apply strategies for understanding gist, specific information, and opinions
  • deal with most situations likely that are likely to arise when travelling
  • understand the main points on familiar matters regularly encountered
  • understand texts dealing with descriptions of events and feelings, and with work-related language
  • enter unprepared into conversation, and describe experiences and events and give reasons for opinions
  • produce text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest

By the end of the course, students should be able to perform at Level B1 Independent user (threshold) of the Common European Framework.

Syllabus

Topics

  • Life style of a contemporary student
  • Work
  • Biographies
  • Russian cities and people
  • Education in Russia or home country
  • Cultures, traditions and customs

Grammar

  • Revision of cases
  • Verbs: reflexive verbs, aspects of verbs
  • Verbs of motion with and without prefixes
  • Comparative and superlative
  • Introduction to active and passive participles
  • Syntax: compound sentence construction, dependent clauses
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Assessment Scheme:

Exam summary and skills weighting: Assessment

Marking criteria (written): Marking criteria (written) levels 3, 4, 5

Marking criteria (oral): Marking criteria (oral) levels 3, 4, 5