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Beginning
Russian
he course covers language material, i.e.
exploring basics of Russian Grammar, builds up conversational
skills in Russian of the beginning level, vocabulary,
and presents the system of phonetics and intonation
of Russian language. The course also intends to give
an introduction to Russian culture.
The course corresponds to beginning Russian
I,II, and III in North American hours given during the
course exceeds those of corresponding courses within
a regular curriculum in the institutions mentioned above.
The course consists of 216 academic hours.
Place, instructor’s stuff, schedule
The classes are being held at the Philological
Faculty of the Moscow State University. The teaching
stuff are faculty members of the Philological Faculty,
who works for the Department of teaching Russian language
for foreigners.
Regularly classes are held 3 days a week
with 6 academic hours a day.
Course Certification
All examinations will be scored on a scale
of 1 to 100 as follows:
- 91 - 100 A+
- 85 - 90 A
- 79 - 84 B+
- 74 - 79 B
- 68 - 73 C+
- 62 - 67 C
- 56 - 61 D+
- 50 - 55 D
Tests and examinations from which students
are absent without a valid excuse will be given a grade
of zero in the computation of the final grade. There
will be no make up tests or quizzes given. Should real
emergency or illness happen, students will be expected
to make up any work missed and turn it in required work
promptly.
To be successful in this course, the students
must work hard and regularly on the assigned problems,
turn the homework in before the deadline and come to
class well prepared. Homework turned in late will not
earn credit. Please note that it is the students’ responsibility
to find out what homework was assigned if they were
absent from class.
Phonetics/Intonation in Russian Sounded
Speech
prosodic structure of Russian word. Basic
prosodic patterns. Accent (stress) in Russian. Reduction
stage I (reduced o, a after hard consonants in unstressed
syllables). Intonation patterns 1,2.
reduction stage II (я, е after consonants).
Vowels а, у, ы. Hard and soft consonants м-м’; п-п’;
б-б’; в-в’; ф-ф’. Intonation patterns 1,2,3, in dialogues
and texts.
- patterns of the words with 3 syllables. Voiced
and voiceless consonants.
- Vowels и-ы, consonants т,т-т’.
- vowel [э] at the beginning
of the word and after consonants ж, ш, ц in unstressed
- syllables. Consonant [j],
combination of sounds та-тя-тья.
consonants д, д-д’,
н, н-н’, р, р-р’, , Intonation pattern 4.
consonants c-c’,
з-з’. Intonation patterns 5, 6.
consonants х, х-х’;
к, к-к’; г, г-г’. Intonation pattern 7.
8. Russian alphabet. Printing and writing,
capital letters and small letters. Letter collocation
in writing.
Elementary Grammar
I. Introduction to Russian case system,
declension patterns, primary meanings of the cases,
use in simple phrases; animate-inanimate nouns; singular-plural
nouns; endings of nouns in singular and in plural in
nominative; gender of nouns: дом, книга, окно.
Cases of nouns:
Nominative case:
- Nominative; pattern
«это + N»
- Predicate; pattern
«N + nominative predicates in Nominative case»
Genitive case:
A. Without prepositions:
- genitive of dates
- numeral genitive (in collocation with numerals
and with the words denoting indefinite amount)
- negation genitive (for denoting
absence of a person or a thing in impersonal sentences
with words нет, не было, не будет);
- possession genitive;
- genitive to denote quality
of a substance;
- the words час, минута in
collocation with numerals 2-4; 5-20...
With prepositions:
- genitive case of nouns and
personal pronouns with a meaning of a possessor
(у Андрея...., у меня....);
- genitive of direction (приехал
из Москвы);
Dative case:
Without prepositions:
1. dative of recipient
recipient - reciever
with verbs дарить - подарить (to whom?) цветы; давать
- дать (to whom?) книгу; покупать - купить (to whom?)
подарок;
with the meaning
of recipient - reciever of information with verbs
with the meaning of informative-speaking action, etiquette
action and other addressed actions (рассказывать кому?
что?);
to denote age
with the verbs
нравиться - понравиться;
Accusative case:
Without prepositions:
accusative case
of inanimate nouns in the meaning of direct object;
accusative case
of animate nouns and personal pronouns in the meaning
of direct object;
With prepositions:
accusative case
of nouns to express a direction of movement (with
prepositions в, на);
accusative case
to express time: в пять часов, в понедельник, во вторник,
в среду....
Instrumental case:
Without prepositions:
instrumental case
with the verbs быть, стать, работать кем? (nominative
predicate);
temporative: летом,
зимой, весной, осенью.
instrumentive:
писать карандашом.
with the verbs:
интересоваться чем?, заниматься чем?
With prepositions
с (со):
instrumental case
of nouns and personal pronouns in the situation of
meeting, acquantance (with verbs знакомиться - познакомиться,
встречаться - встретиться, разговаривать, играть);
with the verb поздравлять:
с праздником, с Новым годом, с днем рождения.
Prepositional case.
With the preposition
о (об, обо):
prepositional case
of nouns, personal pronouns to denote the object of
thought, speech (говорить, рассказывать, думать, вспоминать,
разговаривать о ком? о чем?)
with prepositions
в, на:
prepositional case
of nouns in singular in the meaning of location;
prepositional case
of nouns to express ways of transportation;
with the verbs
играть во что?
temporative (когда?)
Ending of nouns in
all cases in singular.
Ending of nouns in
all cases in plural.
Personal pronouns.
Cases of personal
pronouns.
Possessive pronouns
in the form of singular and plural; sequence of possessive
pronouns with nouns in gender and number.
Adjectives.
Use with nouns and
coordination in gender, number and case.
Cases of adjectives.
Demonstrative pronoun ЭТОТ (эта, это, эти) in nominative
case.
Usage of possessive
pronoun свой (-я, -ё, -и).
Introduction to
Russian tense system, conjugation of verbs (1&2
types of conjugation, most often used irregular verbs);
preliminary ideas of verb aspects;
Verb.
Change of the verbs
of the I conjugation (работать, отдыхать).
change of the verbs
of the II conjugation.
infinitive after
the verb любить;
formation and usage
of the past tense of verbs;
construction: хотеть
+ infinitive of a verb;
construction: где/
можно + infinitive of the verbs купить, взять;
construction: как
называется.....
construction: где
находится....
Aspects of verbs
(general factual meaning, duration, the process of action
of imperfective verbs; the result of action within perfective
verbs).
The verbs of movement
идти - ехать in present and past tenses;
The usage of constructions
хочу пойти (поехать), должен пойти (поехать);
Future tense of the
verbs of perfective and imperfective meaning;
the verbs пойти -
поехать, прийти - приехать in past;
the verb быть in
constructions: что было / будет когда; кто был/ будет
где;
verbs пойти - поехать,
прйити - приехать in future;
constructions: хочу
+ infinitive of the verb; хочу, чтобы.
Verbs начинать, начинаться,
продолжать, продолжаться, кончать, кончаться in temporal
constructions;
Verb aspects to denote
sequence of actions in simple and complex phrases.
The usage of verbs
in imperative.
Adverb.
The usage of adverbs:
хорошо, плохо,
неплохо;
по-русски, по-английски....;
adverbs of location
(вот, здесь, там, дома, слеза, справа);
adverbs of time (утром,
днем, вечером, ночью, завтра, сегодня, вчера, недавно).
The usage of conjunction
и, а, тоже, и...тоже;
construction: не
только, но и.
II. structure of
Russian elementary phrase (subject and predicate positions,
direct and indirect object, prepositional phrases);
negation, introduction to simple and complex phrase.
Complex phrase with
relation clause of causation and the conjugation потому
что;
Complex phrase with
relation clause of time and the conjugation когда;
Complex phrase with
relation clause of description and the conjunction который
in nominative case;
Complex phrase with
conditional relation clause with conjunction если;
Complex phrase with
conjunction поэтому;
phrase with the forms
of the verbs говорят, пишут....
Expressing time:
вчера, сегодня...; утром, днем...; зимой, летом...;
в декабре..., в году..., ...января, ...года; в понедельник,
во вторник... .
Direct speech. Indirect
speech (constructions with the verbs спросить, сказать,
ответить, рассказать).
Vocabulary building
It is supposed that
about 650 lexical units (active, passive, and potential
vocabulary) are to be explored.
Informative/content
aspect of linguistic material
While choosing linguistic
material (texts, microtexts, and textual fragments),
there are three leading principles to follow: 1) typical
situation, 2) theme, 3) stylistic conformity.
For the study period
the base situations are: 1) acquaintance; 2) travel;
3) orientation in a city, shopping, place of living,
4) meeting people, conversation, 5) class/study situation.
Themes are connected
with contemporary life (people, customs. Society. Culture),
history, heritage.
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