In compliance with the CEFR reaching level B1 enables one to satisfy basic communication requirements within different areas such as socio-cultural, educational and professional; and to receive the first level Russian language certification (TRKI) necessary for admission to universities and institutes of the Russian Federation. As well as in everyday contexts, the situations in which one should be able to express oneself with relative ease and achieve one’s communicative aims include administrative offices, the theatre, the railway or bus station, the airport, the pharmacy, the hotel, etc. One acquires the communicative skills necessary to describe one’s experiences, emotions, dreams, projects, events; and justify one’s choices and express evaluations; to understand non-adapted informative and descriptive texts. The themes for oral and written communication regard autobiography, choice of profession, the education system, traditions, personal interests, the problems of modern cities, nature, and ecology. The minimum vocabulary required is 2,300 lexical units.

Written exam rules:

• Composition of a text of at least 200 words on the requested theme
• Lexical -grammar test (50 multiple choice questions)

Oral exam rules:

• The presentation of one of the topics covered during lessons
• A free conversation with the teacher (the questions are aimed at verifying the mastery of the grammatical and lexical contents of the textbooks)

GRAMMAR:

“Doroga v Rossiju 3”, volume 1 (1 semester)

Lesson 1:

• Passive construct with imperfective verbs
• The use of the passive with imperfective verbs
• Passive construct with perfective verbs
• The use of passive with perfective verbs
• Passive formation of perfective verbs
• The use of reflexive and pronominal verbs

Lesson 2:

• Participle
• Present active participle
• Past active participle

Lesson 3:

• Present passive participle
• Past passive participle
• Short form of passive participles

Lesson 4:

• The degrees of the adjective and the pronoun
• Modal dependent phrase with comparative meaning
• Short form of adjectives
• Attribute function in simple and complex sentences

Lesson 5:

• Simple intransitive and transitive motion verbs
• Prefixed unidirectional motion verbs

Lesson 6:

• Aspects of Prefixed motion verbs
• Pluridirectional prefixed motion verbs
• Indirect use of motion verbs
• Place complement in simple sentences
• Place dependent phrase

“Doroga v Rossiju 3”, volume 2 (2 semester)

Lesson 7:

• Declension of cardinal numerals
• Ordinal numbers
• Collective numbers
• Present and past gerund
• Modal dependent phrase with consecutive meaning

Lesson 8:

• Simple time sentence
• Complex time sentence
• Complex conditional sentence
• Simple conditional sentence

Lesson 9:

• Simple and complex causal sentence, simple and complex consecutive sentence
• Simple and complex final sentence
• Simple and complex concessive sentence

The lecturer reserves the right to make changes and/or additions to the programme and such changes or additions will be communicated to students during the course. Non- attending students are strongly advised to attend reception hours in order to agree on a programme for the exams. 

The teaching material prepared by the language assistant in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the language assistant specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it