This is a module designed for students who completed Russian Beginners A1 Part 2 or have completed a short introductory course in Russian language. This module aims to provide you with a very basic range of simple expressions about personal details and needs of a concrete type.

This module is the third part of the preparation for CEFR A1.

• Understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).
• Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
• Describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

All modules on the Languages for All programme are delivered on a hybrid mode, mixing face-to-face and virtual teaching. You will be expected to actively participate in role-plays, interactive activities and group discussions. Course material is accessible on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment, Learning Central, and should be cross-platform compatible.

18 contact hours – 2 hours per week of interactive language workshops.

Intellectual Skills:

• Enhanced cognitive skills leading to innovation, creativity and problem solving.
• Critical analysis applied to discourse, texts, images and events.
• Advanced listening and reading skills: the ability to scan complex texts (including audio) for gist, to synthesise information and focus on salient points.

Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

• Understand spoken phrases and the highest frequency vocabulary related to areas of most immediate personal relevance; catch the main point in spoken short, clear, simple messages.
• Read very short, simple texts; find specific, predictable information in simple everyday material.
• Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar topics and activities.
• Write short, simple notes and messages relating to matters in areas of immediate needs

Transferable Skills:

• Ability to learn additional languages for personal/employment reasons.
• Awareness of and sensitivity to diversity based on culture.
• Ability to navigate and mediate between more than one culture to interpret meaning and intent beyond the purely linguistic.
• Heightened literacy, textual analysis and oracy in mother tongue.
• Presentation skills.
• Ability to work cooperatively, as a member of a team or with a partner.
• Problem solving and the ability to look at things from multiple perspectives.

Written class test (30%) and course work (30%).  

Oral and aural continuous assessment (40%).  

Bivon, Roy and Culhane, Terry (2006).  Russian Language and People (BBC books 2006)

ISBN-10: 0563519746

ISBN-13: 978-0563519744

General learn Russian website:

http://www.russianforfree.com/

Russian alphabet:

http://www.russianforeveryone.com/RufeA/Lessons/Introduction/Alphabet/Alphabet.htm

Basic phrases:

http://www.talkrussian.com/phrases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtMP-ucXETo

Bilingual texts:http://www.russianlessons.net/articles/