This course helps consolidate and revise the existing knowledge, expand your vocabulary and improve conversational skills with extensive oral practice. Students will further develop skills to use in conversation, reading, listening and writing, focusing on everyday conversation and short topic-related texts. The course will equip the students with basic grammar patterns, giving a more advanced knowledge of Russian grammar patterns, including case, gender endings and Present, Past and Future tenses. This course is recommended for people intending to travel or working in a travel sector to communicate on an elementary level with Russian clients.

DELIVERY MODE

• Face-to-Face

TEXTBOOK

• Beginners Russian with Interactive Online Workbook 2nd Edition (Hippocrene: 2022), ISBN: 9780781814409

Supplier: Abbey's Language Book Centre
Please note that textbook cost is not included in the course fee. In the event of a course being cancelled, WEA Sydney cannot be held responsible for the purchase of any textbooks. Language courses will be confirmed or cancelled at least 7 days prior to their starting date.

COURSE OUTLINE

• Your room and apartment: asking information about as apartment for rent; The names of pieces of furniture; Cultural aspect: apartments in Russia; Counting from 1,000 to 100,000.
• Your neighbourhood; Giving your home address; Patronymics; Ordinal numbers 1st-10th
• Names of different foods and where people shop for food; Discussing what food to buy; Asking how much something costs; Discussing breakfast, lunch, dinner; Ordinal numbers 11th-20th
• Dining out: ordering food in a restaurant; Inviting people to dinner; Writing a “thank you’ note; Cultural aspect: Russian food; Ordinal numbers 21st-101st
• Family and family members: a small talk about a family; Professions
• Family history: asking for and giving information about one’s family; Russian last names; Cultural aspect: poet Alexander Blok, writer Leo Tolstoy, playwright Anton Chekhov, poet Marina Tsvetaeva; Cultural aspect: family in Russia.
• Genitive case singular: negation; Answering the questions: “whose?”; Counting things; Indicating proximity; Prepositional singular endings for adjectives, the demonstrative pronoun “this” and possessives
• Verbs for eating and drinking; About verbal aspect; Time expressions “once a week”, “two times in month”, “three times a year”, “every day”; The future tense of imperfective verbs
• The future tense of perfective verbs; Going places: walking vs riding/driving; Genitive singular endings for adjectives, possessives and demonstrative pronoun “this”
• Accusative singular ending for animate nouns and their modifiers; Saying what year it is and indicating the year in which something happens; The prepositional case with the preposition “about” and the prepositional case forms for personal pronouns; Expressing age

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Speak clearly, make inquiries and be understood in basic Russian, in particular to talk about themselves and exchange conversation with others.
2. Demonstrate the skills, language, and attitudes required for further study of Russian.
3. Demonstrate basic grammar concepts.
4. Describe things around them in basic Russian.
5. Identify Past, Present and Future tenses.