The program is meant for foreign students
who start learning Russian. The aim is to master speech
skills which enable the students to talk on everyday,
social and cultural topics and read texts of medium
level using a dictionary.
The program includes the Introductory
Phonetics Course and the Main Course which consists
of the elementary grammar course, the Spoken Russian
course and texts for reading.
The Introductory Phonetics Course introduces
the system of sounds and the main types of intonational
constructions. During the introductory classes the students
master the standards of pronunciation and intonation,
learn how to write letters, syllables and words. The
course is also aimed at learning elementary conversational
skills.
The grammar course includes the system
of Russian cases and declensions, verb conjugations,
aspects of the verb, tense system, main verbs of motion,
passive structures, the formation of cardinals and ordinals,
the principal structure of simple and complex sentences.
The aim of the course is to give basic knowledge in
the main sections of Russian grammar.
The
colloquial course includes some everyday topics and
dialogues based on conversational phrases, clichйs,
as well as on communicative exercises and short texts
based on spoken Russian in connection with the grammar
material and vocabulary.
The
principal goal is to form and develop the students’
language skills so that they can speak, comprehend,
read and write in Russian. Speaking and listening comprehension
are considered a priority.
2. Voiceless consonants at the end
of a word. Hard and soft consonants. Trisyllabic words.
Vowels in the first pretonic and first post-tonic syllables
after soft consonants.
The intonation of interrogative sentences with an interrogative
word (IC-2).
Polysyllabic words. Vowels in the second pretonic and
second post-tonic syllables after hard and soft consonants.
The intonation of the interrogative sentence without
an interrogative word (IC-3). The intonation of incomplete
interrogative sentences (IC-4).
The intonation of address, greetings, requests, suggestions,
phrases expressing gratitude (IC-2a).
Sibilants.
The intonation of
repeated question. The intonation of complex interrogative
sentences. The intonation of requests and polite requests.
The rhythm of the Russian word.
The intonation of
incomplete declarative sentences. The intonation of
enumeration and comparison.
The combinations
of consonants -вств-, -здн-, -стн-,
-стл-, -рдц-, -сч-.
Conversational skills.
Interrogative
constructions: кто это? что это?
кто вы? кто он? где он?
Constructions кто
есть кто; что есть что; <где
есть кто (что)
(это студент), (это дом) (там
студент,
(он студент) (здесь книга)
«Question - answer»
exercises based on the model: Это
ваш друг? - Да, это мой друг. Это книга? - Нет, это
не книга, это словарь.
Cardinals 1- 20.
Days of the week.
Models: Какой
сегодня день? Какое сегодня число?
Conversational
constructions (related to the topic of «Getting acquainted»):
«Меня зовут...», «Я приехал из...», «Мне ... лет», «Я
говорю по-...», construction «У
меня есть...».
Grammar
- The Noun.
- The gender and
the number of nouns.
- The cases of
nouns. The declension.
The Accusative Case of inanimate
nouns (что?). Accusative of direction (куда?)
The Prepositional Case (где?
о ком? о чем?)
Accusative
and Prepositional of time (когда? сколько времени?)
Accusative Case of animate
nouns (кого?)
The Dative Case
of an addressee. The use of Dative in impersonal sentences
(кому? чему? к кому? кому что нужно?)
The Genitive Case
expressing the idea of belonging and being related to
somebody / something. The Genitive of negation. The
Genitive of place (чей? откуда? нет, не было, не будет...).
Constructions 2,3,4,5,6...+ Genitive etc.
The Instrumental
Case. The Instrumental expressing the idea of doing
something together. The instrumental expressing the
idea of subject-to-object correlation (писать чем, работать
вместе с кем, быть, являться, называться кем, чем).
The Instrumental of place (рядом с чем, между чем и
чем).
- The Pronoun.
- Personal pronouns.
- Possessive pronouns.
- Demonstrative
pronouns (это, этот, тот etc.).
- Negative pronouns
(никто, ничего etc.).
- Interrogative
pronouns (какой, как etc.).
- The Numeral.
- Cardinal numerals
(1 - 100).
- Ordinal numerals
(1-ый - 20-ый).
- The agreement
between cardinal numerals and nouns.
- The Adjective.
- Gender and number
of adjectives.
- The agreement
between adjectives and nouns.
- Declension of
adjectives in singular and plural.
- Formation of
the degrees of comparison.
- The Verb.
- The 1st
conjugation.
- The 2nd
conjugation.
- Non-productive
verb groups. Modal verbs.
- The verb «быть»
in the past tense.
- The aspects
of the verb in the past tense.
- The future tense.
The aspects of the verb in the future.
- Reflective verbs.
Passive constructions with reflective verbs.
Verbs
of motion without prefixes of the 1st and
2nd types ( идти - ходить, ехать - ездить,
лететь - летать, бежать - бегать, плыть - плавать).
- Prefixed verbs
of motion.
- The Short Passive
Participle in passive constructions.
- The Adverb.
- Adverbs of place
(там, туда, справа etc.).
- Adverbs of time
(давно, недавно, долго etc.).
- Adverbs of manner
(медленно, громко etc.).
The Structure
of the Simple Sentence. The ways of expressing the subject
and the predicate.
IX. The types of Compound and
Complex Sentences.
Compound sentences with the
conjunctions и, а, но, также.
Complex sentences
with object subordinate clauses (the conjunctions что,
кто, чтобы).
Complex sentences with the subordinate
clauses of time (conjunction когда) and reason (conjunction
потому что).
Complex sentences
with relative subordinate clauses (the linking word
который).
Complex sentences
with the subordinate clauses of condition (the conjunction
если).
Complex sentences
with the subordinate clauses of purpose (the conjunction
чтобы + infinitive).
Complex sentences
with the subordinate clauses of concession (the conjunction
хотя).
The Subjunctive Mood.
Conversational Topics
- Getting acquainted.
- Family.
- House and apartment.
- Work and studies.
- City and transport.
- Shopping and cafes. Goods and meals.
- At the doctor’s.
- At the post-office.
Booking a telephone conversation.
- Spare time (hobbies,
leisure, sports).
- At the cinema
and at the theatre.
- Going to museums
and concerts.
- Reading, books,
newspapers.
- Travelling.
- Holidays.
- Appearance and
character.
- Russia nowadays.
- The sights of Saint-Petersburg.
All conversational topics are studied on the
basis of dialogues and texts for reading.
>The basic textbook is: Ю. Г. Овсиенко. Русский
язык для начинающих (для говорящих на английском языке).
- М.: Русский язык, 1999.
