1. Welcome to the Basic Russian course!

2. Z-d-r-áh-v-s-t-v-oo-y-t-yeh (Hello)
Здрáвствуйте
Z-d-r-áh-v-s-t-v-oo-y-t-yeh (Hello)

3. Scheme of Work Lessons Content
Additional learning (h/w), Resources and activities
Grammar
Lesson 1
23/04/2013
Introduction to the course, environment, and cultural aspects and some techniques of learning languages. Setting targets. Cyrillic Alphabet (letters and sounds), Greetings.
Formal and informal greetings, introducing yourself. Ppt, worksheets,
Initial assessment quiz handout.
Basic nouns/pronouns (I, you, he/she, my, her)
Lesson 2
30/04/2013
Home and environment (describing places, asking for directions and places, family members)
Nationalities/languages, names, cultural diversity and stereotypes
Asking questions
Lesson 3
07/05/2013
Holidays in Russia
(situational role plays and short dialogs: At the hotel, at the airport, asking for taxi, sightseeing)
More descriptions (people and places)
Intro to adjectives gender (he/she)
Lesson 4
14/05/2013
Eating In and Out. Favourite Russian and English food and meals.
Demonstratives (this, that)
Making order in the restaurant. Money
Gender and singular/plural nouns, numbers
Lesson 5
21/05/2013
Shopping
(Role plays in pairs – at the shop)
Short test on previous topics
Check point on targets achievement/progression
Cases (nominative, genitive), more on numbers
Lesson 6
28/05/2013
Weather, seasons, time and date
More descriptions, daily rutines
Cases continue (accusative)
Lesson 7
04/06/2013
National holidays / having fun
Cultural differences comparison
Expressing likes and dislikes
Comparisons (bigger, more beautiful)
Negation (not, don’t)
Lesson 8
11/06/2013
Interests and Hobbies
Sports, Music, Art, Cinema
Verbs
Lesson 9
18/06/2013
Services (doctor, post office, police)
Doctor, post office, police, transport
Revision
Lesson 10
25/06/2013
End of course revision, evaluation of the course
Course end celebration
Discussion of progression
Revision / quiz

4. Language is needed for Travelling Meeting new friends Hobbies
Learning about culture
Learning about business

5. We are going to learn how to:
say and understand the words
“hello” and “goodbye”
write your name in Russian and read several simple words using Cyrillic alphabet
use Russian accelerator technique

6. QUIZ!
What do you know about Russia?

7. QUIZ! 1. Where is this cathedral situated? A) Saint Petersburg
B) Moscow
C) Kazan
2. What is the name of this Russian doll?
3) Who is this man?
4) What is Russian currency?
A) Russian pound
B) Dollar
C) Rouble
5) How we call the favourite Russian soup?

13. ANSWERS 1. B Moscow 2. Matryoshka 3. Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich
C Roubles
Borshch

14. More questions in your booklet

15. Saying informal hello in Russian
Здрáвствуй (Z-d-r-áh-v-s-t-v-oo-y)

16. Saying formal hello in Russian
Здрáвствуйте (Z-d-r-áh-v-s-t-v-oo-y-t-yeh)

17. Saying informal goodbye in Russian
Покá
(P-o-k-a)
Покá
(P-o-k-a)
Bye!

18. Saying formal goodbye in Russian
До свидáния
Do svee-dah-nee-yah
Bye!

19. Task 1
Say it: Здравствуй. Я ____________________ Пока.

20. Task 1
Say it: Здравствуйте. Я ____________________ До свидания.

21. how to write your name in Russian
ALPHABET

22. Ё A Б В Г Д Е Ж З И Й К Л М Н О П Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я
a b v g d ye yo zh z ee Й К Л М Н О П Р С Т У
y k l m n o p r s t oo Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь
L=raise left hand, R=right hand, T=both hands together!
f kh ts ch sh shch iy Э Ю Я
e yu ya

23. алфавит The Russian (Cyrillic) Alphabet
There are 33 letters in the Russian alphabet. Some look and sound like English letters,
Some sound different, and some look different and sound different.
These letters look and
sound the same as the
English: A К М О Т
Practice! Can you read…
ТАМ = there
МАТ = checkmate
МАК = poppy
КАК = how
ТАК = so

24. Practice!
вес = weight
сон = sleep
yхо = ear
нос = nose
рост = height
Москва = Moscow
сухо = dry
муха = fly
метро = metro
ресторан = restaurant
These letters look the same
but are different to English:
В = v as in van
Е = ye as in yesterday
Н = n as in name
Р = r as in error
С = s as in smile
У = oo as in cool
Х = ch as in loch

25. Unfamiliar letters with familiar sounds:
Б = b as in but
Г = g as in get
Д = d as in dress
Ё = yo as in yonder
З = z as in zoo
И = ee as in meet
Й = oy as in toy
Л = l as in love
П = p as in paper
Ф = f as in farm
Э = e as in bet
Ю = yu as in Yugoslavia
Я = ya as in yard
Practice!
Рим = Rome футбол = football
мир = peace/world до свидания = goodbye
да = yes Россия = Russia
спасибо = thank you гора = hill
сад = garden парк = park

26. Letters which might take a while to
remember:
Ж = zh as in measure
Ч = ch as in chess
Ц = ts as in its
Ш = sh as in fish
Щ = shch as in fresh_chicken
Ъ = ‘hard sign’ no sound of its
own- changes the letters
round it
Ы = i as in bill
Ь = ‘soft sign’ – changes letters
around it.
More Practice!
журнал = paper, journal
чай = tea
Чайковский = Chaikovsky,
composer
объект = object
кофе = coffee
конь = horse

27. Russian accelerator

28. Russian accelerator
CATEGORY 3 !!!

29. Russian Language
A tongue of harsh accents, alien alphabet and a reputation as being hard to crack…

30. Russian accelerator
Contextual learning – learning from the context

31. Russian accelerator

32. Russian accelerator

33. SOBAKA

34. Russian accelerator

35. Russian accelerator

36. ULITSA

37. Russian accelerator

38. Russian accelerator
SOBAKA and ULITSA

39. Russian accelerator
Task 2. Make your own example using Russian accelerator technique devushka A girl kneega A book

40. Russian accelerator
Listen to the word СПАСИБО and decide what English words it is made of.

41. Russian accelerator
spa
see
bow
СПАСИБО!

42. Russian cartoon

43. До свидáния
Do sveedahneeyah
Goodbye

44. СПАСИБО! Thank you for your attention! Basic reading list
Talk Russian. BBC Active. BBC Worldwide Ltd 1998
Nick Brown, New Penguin Russian Course. London: Penguin, 1996

45. EVALUATION Was this session interesting? yes somewhat no
Were the explanations clear?
yes somewhat no
Would you be interested to continue to learn Russian?
yes maybe no