High School Russian 3A and 3B
High School Russian 3 is designed for students who have mastered the language skills in Elementary Russian. Students learn to operate in basic social and cultural environments through the use of authentic materials: film, poetry, stories, video, ads, proverbs, tails, food, and song. Conversational skills needed on the telephone, train, hotel and other daily situations; listening and reading skills such as mass media and classical Russian literature are studied. Course offers more emphasis on practical grammar with its immediate activation in conversations. Classes are centered on the textbook Welcome Back: Russian Stage Two, an integrated Russian language program based on a video series that take students to Moscow to follow the new adventures and misadventures of Russian college student Tania, her friends and family.
Prerequisite: High School Russian 2 B or approval by BSN Instructor
Enduring Understanding
- Students at the end of the semester will have improved functional competence in speaking, listening, reading and writing Russian.
- They will be able to have conversations in Russian; understand native speaker who speaks slowly and clearly; read and retell short Russian stories and have significant Russian cultural knowledge.
Course Design
Using the distance learning technology available to students and instructor, this course seeks to provide students with the necessary tools to learn Russian language at the intermediate level of study. Through practicing speaking, listening and writing in Russian, they will gain a solid knowledge of Russian language which will give them a rudimentary knowledge in both written and spoken Russian.
Additional Resources Needed
Required Textbooks:
Irina Dolgova, Cynthia Martin (2010) Welcome Back; Russian Stage Two. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company: Dubuque, Iowa. Third Edition Contains a textbook, two student workbooks (one for each semester), DVD and two audio CDs. ISBN-13: 978-0-7575-6343-0
Required Technology:
- Computer that meets the minimum system requirements listed on the Live Classroom page
- Internet connection (Broadband preferred)
- Headset with microphone combination
- E-mail account (recommended)
- Printer
- Scanner or access to a fax machine (Your school should have this available for you
- DVD Player (in PC or consumer player)
- Web camera for computer (recommended
- Writing tablet (recommended)- (Genius Mouse Pen 8x6 - $50; Bamboo [Small] Pen tablet with pen only - $70 - from Amazon.com)
Content Topics
Unit 1
The absence of the verb “to be” in present tense (review), Expressing location: review, Expressing possession: review, Dative case: review form and function, Verbs: studying and learning - “учиться, изучать”, Second-person imperative, Expressing Dates, Simple comparative of adjectives and adverbs, Reported speech: reporting statements, questions with interrogatives
Unit 2
Comparatives with the prefix- “по”, expressing age, Когда? Через + Accusative, Time expressions (review): year, days of the week, months, Expressing a plural subject, Constructions used on the phone, First person imperative: “Let’s...”,, Constructions needed to discuss health, Reported Speech (“чтобы”), Review of “который”
Unit 3
Un-prefixed verbs of motion, Transitive verbs of motion: ‘возить-везти, носить-нести’, Prefix- “по” with the verbs of motion, Clock time; 24 hour clock, telling time colloquially, Reported Speech: Yes/No questions, “ли”
Unit 4
Spatial prepositions: “между, за, рядом, направо, налево, справа, слева” , Prefixed verbs of motion, Common expressions for giving directions, Subjunctive Mood, use of “бы”, Reported thought or knowledge
Unit 5
Aspect and annulled action, Expressing duration, Time expressions with “на”, Phrasal verbs, Expressing necessity with “надо”, Possessive “свой”, “нельзя” + aspect, Time expressions with “за”, Common short-form adjectives
Assessments
- Attendance: 10%
- Class Participation 10%
- Homework: 10%
- 4 Tests 40% (10% each)
- Final Exam 30%