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.

All key language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as grammar and vocab) are assessed over the course of the module.

Written end of module test (50%) and course work (30%). 

Oral assessment (20%).  

• Revision of the topics ‘My Family and I’; Russian forms of address; ‘Counting in Russian’ and ‘Travelling around town’;
• Talk about/express food preferences and order food in a restaurant/café/bar etc;  
• Asking and answering questions on the topic ‘The weather’;
• Asking and answering questions relevant to the topic ‘Telling the time’;
• Express preferences using the verbs любить/нравиться in the correct form; talk and write messages using impersonal sentences and modal expressions можно; нужно; нельзя; надо and modal verb хотеть; ordinal numerals; long and short form of adjectives.

TEXTBOOK TO BE CONFIRMED.  SOME MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON LEARNING CENTRAL.