Russian for Beginners. Part 4

Upon completion of the course students will have learned: Russian verbs which indicate the object`s location; the verbs заниматься, интересоваться, поздравлять, желать and their conjugation in the Past, Present and Future tense; the formation and use of Instrumental and Prepositional case of Russian nouns, pronouns and adjectives; the formation of the Imperative; the use of Genitive, Dative and Accusative case in different types of conversational phrases.

The course contains more than 100 new words and conversational phrases providing the learner with a basic vocabulary for everyday communication on such topics as housing, hobbies an interests, holidays and congratulations, as well as the vocabulary which can be used when going to someone’s house. More than 150 exercises are provided for the learners to apply the knowledge they will learn on the course.

The course is taught completely online.

We recommend that learners complete the first three parts of the course series.

Unit 1. My Home

Unit 2. Hobbies and Interests

Unit 3. Holidays and Congratulations

Unit 4. Going to Someone's House

Upon completion of this course learners will achieve the following learning objectives:

1.1. Learn how to tell about your house.

1.2. Learn how to tell about the location of an object.

1.3. Learn how to conjugate the verbs стоять, лежать, висеть.

1.4. Learn how to use the Prepositional case when decribing location.

2.1. Learn how to tell about your hobbies and interests.

2.2. Learn how to conjugate the verbs заниматься, интересоваться.

2.3. Learn how to use the construction играть + во что? на чем?

2.4. Learn how to form and use the Instrumental case.

3.1. Learn how to congratulate on a holiday.

3.2. Learn how to express holiday wishes.

3.3. Learn how to conjugate the verbs поздравлять, поздравить, желать, пожелать.

3.4. Learn how to use the Accusative, the Prepositional and the Genitive with time expressions.

4.1. Learn new verbal pairs (imperfective and perfective).

4.2. Learn how to conjugate the verbs дарить, подарить.

4.3. Learn the new uses of the Dative case.

4.4. Learn how to form the Imperative in the Russian language.

4.5. Learn how to invite, and how to accept or politely decline an invitation

УК-5. Способен воспринимать межкультурное разнообразие общества в социально-историческом, этическом и философском контекстах.

ОПК-1. Способен применять систему лингвистических знаний об основных фонетических, лексических, грамматических, словообразовательных явлениях, орфографии и пунктуации, о закономерностях функционирования изучаемого иностранного языка, его функциональных разновидностях.

ОПК-3. Способен порождать и понимать устные и письменные тексты на изучаемом иностранном языке применительно к основным функциональным стилям в официальной и неофициальной сферах общения.

ОПК-4. Способен осуществлять межъязыковое и межкультурное взаимодействие в устной и письменной формах как в общей, так и профессиональной сферах общения.