Russian Beginners 2 Extra

Entry Requirements

This course is aimed at students who have attended Beginners 2 or similar or have some very basic knowledge of Russian. It will provide students with a good introductory command of Russian, developing all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Overview

The module will equip students with a very basic knowledge of the countries where Russian is spoken and encourage their curiosity about the language, the country, the people, their environment, society, traditions and culture. It will enable the student to reach a level of very basic competence in the four main areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

The course is a revision of the Russian Beginners 1 and Russian Beginners 2.

The student will acquire basic language skills, and they will revise the following topics:

• Introduce themselves to someone
• Talk about other people
• Question people
• Shop
• Give basic directions
• Travel
• Describe locations
• Describe people
• Talk about the future
• Buy and describe clothes and souvenirs
• Discuss likes and dislikes
• Talk about food
• Go to a restaurant / bar and order
• Talk about daily routine
• Deal with hotel accommodation
• Discuss hobbies
• Talk about biographies
• Talk about celebrations

The students will revise the following Grammar aspects:

• Russian alphabet
• Passive knowledge of commands
• Numbers
• Nominative, accusative, prepositional case
• Position of adjectives (describing their home)
• Gender
• Dates
• Present tense of regular verbs
• Pronouns
• Simple comparisons
• Past tense of regular verbs (Introduction to imperfective, perfective)
• Verbs of motion
• Introduction of “I have…”
• Use of “where…?
• Perfective and Imperfective verbs  
• Future tense 
• Reflexive verbs
• Genitive, Instrumental and Dative cases
• Conditional mood 
• Introducing declension of adjectives

Teaching and Learning 

You will be working in groups or pairs with the emphasis of the course being on participation and practice. Our aim is to develop student skills using communicative language and you will be encouraged to actively participate in class through various friendly activities designed to stimulate communication.

We recommend that you spend time between the lessons, revising and practising what has been done in class.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, students should be able to: 

1. Demonstrate further that they can cope at very basic level in face-to-face exchanges in Russian, for example: meeting and greeting, giving personal information, introducing self and others, functioning in commonplace situations.
2. Extract additional information from short texts (i.e: literaries, newspapers, advertisements);
3. Translate extra information from short texts (i.e:literaries, newspapers, advertisements);
4. Strengthen their writing, with a very basic linguistic accuracy.

Assessments

The assessment of this course is divided into four parts to assess each of the following skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. It is designed to enhance what you have learnt during the course.

Speaking: Recording of a short speaking exercise.

Listening: Answering questions in English on a short recording, lasting no more than five minutes.

Reading: Comprehension exercise based on text such as novels, newspapers, advertisements etc.

Writing: A written task

To award credits we need to have evidence of the knowledge and skills you have gained or improved. Some of this has to be in a form that can be shown to external examiners so that we can be absolutely sure that standards are met across all courses and subjects. 

Reading Suggestions

A full reading list can be found via the following link:

Russian Beginners 2 Extra 

Route Progression

Students who successfully complete the module should feel that they have a good introductory command of Russian and should be able to proceed to Improvers 1 or equivalent.

This revision course is Higher Education and accredited. 

 However, it is not part of the Certificate of Higher Education: Modern Languages 

What Do I Need? 

This course can be delivered as an online scheduled session course or as a face-to-face course.

If you are enrolling on the online scheduled session course, you would need the following: 

• Internet access. 
• Access to a laptop or computer with a web camera and microphone; the use of headphones might also benefit. 
• Use of the Chrome web browser where possible. 

If you are enrolling on the face-to-face course, you will need the following:

• Pen and paper/notebook or access to digital equipment to take notes.