Course detail

Russian for Intermediate Students

FAST-BYR3Acad. year: 2024/2025

Topics - ecology, travelling, food, lifestyle
Grammar – comparatives and superlatives, telling the time, conditionals, conjugation of verbs, imperative mood, indefinite pronouns and adverbs

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Lucie Strnadová

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Entry knowledge

Students should master Russian alphabet very well, vocabulary and conversation on the following topics - introducing, phoning, basic information about myself, nationalities, on a visit, family, jobs, free time, hobbies, school, orientation in the city, means of transport, shopping, Moscow and Petersburg, Prague, meeting friends, appearance, human body, clothes, characteristics of people, seasons, weather. Students should accomplish the following grammar - numerals, conjugation of verbs, reflexive verbs, infinitive, inflexion of nouns, adjectives and pronouns, inanimate and animate nouns, indeclinable nouns, prepositional phrases, date, past tense, using "vy" when addressing a person, substantivized adjectives, proximity.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

The aim of the subject is to achieve an intermediate level of Russian both in vocabulary and grammar. Then also the student´s ability to read, translate and make Russian texts of intermediate level.
Student will accomplish the aim of the subject if he achieves an intermediate level of Russian both in vocabulary and grammar and if he is able to read, translate and make Russian texts of intermediate level.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

JELÍNEK, Stanislav a kol.: Raduga 4 po novomu. Plzeň: Fraus, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7238-947-6. (RU)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Lucie Strnadová

Syllabus

1. L1-Climate and countryside in Siberia; telling the time, numerals 2. L1-Travelling to Siberia, mineral resources; superlative form of adjectives 3. L2-Ecology; conjugation of verbs „to give“ and related verbs 4. L2-Environmental protection; inflexion of nouns according to model „exercise book“ 5. L3-Moscow, at the airport; verbal phrases „be grateful“, conjugation of verbs „to open“, „to close“ 6. L3-Moscow, hotel reservation and accommodation; particle and conjunction „if“ 7. L3-Moscow, problems connected with travelling; conditional mood, conditional sentences 8. L4-Food; imperative mood 9. L4-In a restaurant; conjugation of verbs „to eat“, „to drink“ 10. L4-Shopping for food, Russian cuisine 11. L5-Lifestyle; verbal phrases, indefinite pronouns and adverbs 12. L5-Lifestyle; comperative form of adjectives and adverbs 13. Summary, revision, games