PROGRAMM KINNITATUD
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SUBJECT PROGRAM
CODE OF THE SUBJECT	KEEC 5202	
NAME OF THE SUBJECT  (in Estonian)	Vene keel algajatele	
NAME OF THE SUBJECT (in English)	Russian for beginners	
CAPACITY OF THE SUBJECT (ECTS)
Incl. contact classes
Hours of independent work	3 EAP
54             
24           	
THE CURRICULUM	All Curricula	
THE HEAD OF THE CHAIR	Elen Laanemaa	
PREREQUISITE SUBJECTS:	
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE SUBJECT: Acquiring of the vocabulary and grammatical structures (structures of Russian) necessary for everyday communication, developing spoken expression, using webpages supporting (individual) language learning, and complementing the acquired study styles and skills implemented when learning the Russian language
	
CONTENT:

	Russian (Cyrillic) Alphabet (learning letters and sounds, pronunciation, reading and writing). Greetings and first simple phrases in Russian (formal and informal situations). Names and professions. Countries, nationalities and languages. „Откуда Вы? / Where are you from?“ „Вы говорите по-русски? / Do you speak Russian?“ „Кто это? / Who is it?“ „Что это? / What is it?“ Grammar: Russian Alphabet and rules for spelling. Nouns and Gender. Animate and Inanimate Nouns in the Prepositional case. Personal Pronouns in the Prepositional case. First verbs. Personal endings of Russian verbs. Present tense.

Speaking about oneself, activity, leisure, professions, places (states) and languages: Answering the main questions „Что? Кто? / What? Who?“ „Когда? / When?“ „Где? Куда? / Where?“ “Откуда? / Where from?” „Какой?“ „Какая?“ „Какое?“ „Какие?“ / Which? What kind of…? etc. Grammar: Possessive pronouns „чей? (masculine), чья? (feminine), чьё? (neuter), чьи? (plural for all genders)“. Conjunctions “и”, “а”, “но”, “тоже”. Prepositions “в” and “на”. Past, Nouns and Adjectives in the Nominative case. Gender forms. Singular and Plural of the Nouns. Animate and Inanimate words. Nouns and Adjectives in the Possessive, Accusative and Prepositional case. Present and Future tenses. 

Speaking about time and age: “Сколько времени? / What time is now?“ „Сколько тебе лет? / How old are you?“  Grammar: Numbers and quantity. Months and seasons. Adverbs “ещё” and “уже”.

Speaking about family and friends: „Моя семья,  мои друзья“. Constructions with „у меня есть... / have“, „у  меня нет... / haven’t“ Grammar: Personal Nouns, Names and Surnames in Russian (declension). 

Speaking about interests: „Чем вы интересуетесь? Я интересуюсь культурой. Я не интересуюсь политикой/ What are your interests? I'm interested in culture. I'm not interested in politics”. Grammar: Nouns in the Instrumental case. Reflexive verbs. Nouns in the Dative case. Personal Pronouns in the Dative case and words to denote personal condition.

Speaking about eating and drinking: „Что ты любишь...? / What do you like...?” Grammar: Genitive and Accusative case in Plural. Proverbs with the Genitive case in Plural. Nouns in the Instrumental case. First Russian verbs of desire, volition and motion. 

Speaking about unknown objects. Usage of impersonal pronouns “кто-то”, “кое-кто”, “кто-нибудь”. Negation. Use of the Particles “не” and “ни”. Grammar: Impersonal Pronouns and the particles. 

Expressing requests, orders, advices and prohibitions. Constructions with “не + Imperative” forms. Grammar: Imperative Mood of Russian Verbs. 

Speaking about possibility and necessity. Constructions of permission, prohibition, recommendation, obligation, and ability. Grammar: Modality in Russian, Verbs. 

Speaking about a person’s appearance, personality, temperament, character. Grammar: Qualitative Adjectives. Antonyms of some commonly used adjectives.
	
LEARNING OUTCOMES	TEACHING ACTIVITY	LEARNING ACTIVITY	ASSESSMENT METHOD AND CRITERIAS	
After successfully completing the course a student:				
Can talk on univocal and predictable topics while using the linguistic forms and grammatical structures acquired during the course. 	Choosing, composing and presenting study materials, organising individual, pair and group work. 
	Active participation in contact lessons, acquiring of the linguistic forms necessary for introducing oneself as a student, consolidating of the things learned by practising. 	5-7 minute presentation about oneself, about his/her group, family, friends and acquaintances, answering to the listeners’ questions.
Assessment criteria:
Vocabulary, pronunciation: The vocabulary used is suitable and sufficient for presenting one’s ideas, mother tongue’s influence on the speaker’ pronunciation does not hinder understanding the presentation.
Fluency: and coherency fluent, univocal text, uses the words and expressions used for making a text coherent, uses notes but does not read from the notes. 
Grammar: Speaker makes mistakes that do not change the meaning of the presentation. 
Form: the general form of the presentation is neat, structured (introduction, development of the subject, conclusion, answering to the questions); length 5-7 minutes.	
When reading a brief text in Russian he/she understands what it is about, presents the essential information to the listeners using the language everyone can understand;	Choosing, composing and presenting study materials, organising individual, pair and group work. 	Reading short texts in classes, translating them, eliciting important information, making oral summaries. 	Composing a short oral summary (50-70 words) of a given text (150-200 words). Answering to the questions.
Assessment criteria:
Content: the summary is structured, it includes essential information and is written using coherent language and acquired vocabulary. 
Form, grammar: the summary is 50-70 words long, there are some mistakes considering grammatical structures and spelling, but these do not hinder understanding the text.	
Participates in everyday communicational situations, uses the linguistic structures acquired during this course. 	Choosing and composing the study materials, supervising the students: structure of the dialogues, necessary linguistic structures, giving feedback. 
	Active using of the acquired vocabulary and grammatical structures when composing dialogues either individually or in classes. 	Composing 1 brief dialogue based on the information provided. 
Assessment criteria:
Vocabulary, pronunciation: vocabulary is suitable and sufficient mother tongue’s influence on the speaker’ pronunciation does not hinder understanding the message. 
Grammar: Speaker makes mistakes that do not influence passing the message.
Communication: composes suitable questions, answers to questions, holds conversation according to the given role.	
COMPULSORY SOURCES:
1.	Nekrasova. E. A Basic Modern Russian Grammar. USA, Atlanta, 1997 (available as pdf-doc in the ÕIS)
2.	Learning materials (paper handouts) developed by teacher. 

RECOMMENDED SOURCES:
1.	Website “Время говорить по-русски”: http://speak-russian.cie.ru/time_new/ (instructions in English and German)
2.	Website „Learn Russian Online”: http://www.russianforeveryone.com
3.	Website „Lingust“ Free Russian Lessons Online for Beginners: http://lingust.ru/russian/russian-lessons
4.	Website “Master Russian”: http://masterrussian.com
5.	Website “Russian Language Lessons”: http://www.russianlessons.net

Compiled by: Merle Tammela, Natalja Netšunajeva, Jelena Trahtman, Aida Hatšaturjan

Date: 02.02.2009, updated 18.03.2016