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Russian Language
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:11.00
Study Course Accepted:05.02.2024 11:20:52
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_024 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 9.00 | ECTS: | 13.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Political Science; Business Management | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ludmila Jermakoviča | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 30 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 60 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 60 | ||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.2 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 30 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 60 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 60 | ||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.3 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 30 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 60 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 60 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 9 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 18 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 18 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.2 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 9 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 18 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 18 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.3 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 9 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 18 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 18 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Without preliminary knowledge. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Ensure that having completed the course, students are able to use Russian for communication in daily life in accordance with the description of skills corresponding to levels A1/A2 of the “Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment”. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Alphabet. Pronunciation of vowels, consonants and letter combinations. Intonation models. Russian cursive letters. | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | First contacts: greeting and saying goodbye, getting acquainted. Addressing someone formally (using second person plural) and informally (using second person singular). Defining noun gender by noun endings. Word order in the sentence. Questions with interrogative pronouns "кто?" and "что?” Personal pronouns "я, ты, он, она, оно, мы, вы, они" and possessive pronouns "чей? – мой, твой, его, её, наш, ваш, их". | Classes | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | My family and I, family members and relatives. Professions. The names of countries, their languages, and nationalities. Genitive of personal pronouns. Phrases: "У меня есть...", "У тебя есть...?", "Кто вы? – Я студент". Full and shortened replies. Conjugation of verbs "говорить, изучать, читать, писать". Plural of nouns. Cardinal numbers from 1 to 100. | Classes | 6.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Place of residence, house, flat, city. Conjugation of the verbs "жить, работать, отдыхать, смотреть, учиться, делать". In the present tense. Locative of the noun with prepositions "в" or "на" when replying to the question "Где?” The past form of the verb. The past forms of the verb "быть – был". "Где ты был вчера? Ты был вчера в.. или на...?” Adjective gender and number. Agreement with nouns. Interrogative pronouns "Какой? Какая? Какое? Какиe?” | Classes | 6.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Russia, administrative division, map. National symbols. Nationalities and national languages. Moscow, the capital city of Russia. | Classes | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Seasons, Days of the week and months. Hobbies. Conjugation of the modals "хотеть, мочь, должен" and their usage with the infinitive of the verb. Interrogative pronoun "Когда?" and time adverbs "утром, днём, вечером, ночью, зимой...". Accusative of the noun for directions "Куда? – в университет, на работу". | Classes | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Clock, time, time management. Time expression – formal and informal. "Который час?” Event time and venue "В котором часу...?” Years, birthdays – ordinal numbers from 1 to 10 and over 10. Reflexive verbs. Holidays, celebrations, traditions. Genitive of the noun with negation "нет, не было, не будет". Dative of personal pronouns "Сколько вам/тебе лет? Мне 20 лет/21 год". | Classes | 6.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Food, dishes, drinks. Shopping at a grocery store, shop departments. Meals; menu, speaking in a cafe or restaurant. The conjugation of the verbs "есть, пить, любить, завтракать, обедать, ужинать". Accusative of the noun without prepositions. Imperative. | Classes | 6.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Transport and traffic. Travel. Hotels. Conjugation of the verbs "ехать, ездить, идти, ходить". Adverbs of place "где?” "– здесь, там, справа, слева..." and adverbs of direction "куда?" "– сюда, туда, направо, налево...” | Classes | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Nature of Russia. Tour of Russian cities and towns. | Classes | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | My daily routine. Planning of a weekday. Perfective and imperfective verbs, their forms and usage. Perfective verb prefixes "вы-, на-, по-, под-, при- про-, с-, за-, у-". Adverbs of imperfective verbs. "Как часто? – всегда, иногда, часто, редко, обычно, долго". The future tense – simple and compound future; future tense forms and conjugation. Interplay between perfective and imperfective verbs. The dative case of the noun – "Кому? Чему?” | Classes | 10.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | People, their appearance, personalities, clothes. Body parts; health and disease, pain, complaints. Speaking about health. Present and past forms of the vebs "болен, больна, болит, болеть, заболеть". Structure Dative + "нужно, можно, нельзя"+ Infinitive. Conditionals with "если". | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Education, university, faculties; my studies, study courses. Biography. The shortened form of adjectives. The comparative and superlative of adjectives and adverbs. The subordinate clauses of cause, consequence, and purpose. | Classes | 8.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | Leisure, leisure options in Latvia and Russia, sightseeing, favourite places, sports. Instrumental of the noun without prepositions. "Кем? Чем?” without a preposition. The subordinate clauses with conjunctions "который, которая, которые". | Classes | 7.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 15 | Russian art, music, folklore: folk songs, fairy tales, legends, proverbs, sayings and riddles. Outstanding Russian writers, artists and scientists. | Classes | 6.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 16 | Revision of the course material before the final examination. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Alphabet. Pronunciation of vowels, consonants and letter combinations. Intonation models. Russian cursive letters. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | First contacts: greeting and saying goodbye, getting acquainted. Addressing someone formally (using second person plural) and informally (using second person singular). Defining noun gender by noun endings. Word order in the sentence. Questions with interrogative pronouns "кто?" and "что?” Personal pronouns "я, ты, он, она, оно, мы, вы, они" and possessive pronouns "чей? – мой, твой, его, её, наш, ваш, их". | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | My family and I, family members and relatives. Professions. The names of countries, their languages, and nationalities. Genitive of personal pronouns. Phrases: "У меня есть...", "У тебя есть...?", "Кто вы? – Я студент". Full and shortened replies. Conjugation of verbs "говорить, изучать, читать, писать". Plural of nouns. Cardinal numbers from 1 to 100. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Place of residence, house, flat, city. Conjugation of the verbs "жить, работать, отдыхать, смотреть, учиться, делать". In the present tense. Locative of the noun with prepositions "в" or "на" when replying to the question "Где?” The past form of the verb. The past forms of the verb "быть – был". "Где ты был вчера? Ты был вчера в.. или на...?” Adjective gender and number. Agreement with nouns. Interrogative pronouns "Какой? Какая? Какое? Какиe?” | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Russia, administrative division, map. National symbols. Nationalities and national languages. Moscow, the capital city of Russia. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Seasons, Days of the week and months. Hobbies. Conjugation of the modals "хотеть, мочь, должен" and their usage with the infinitive of the verb. Interrogative pronoun "Когда?" and time adverbs "утром, днём, вечером, ночью, зимой...". Accusative of the noun for directions "Куда? – в университет, на работу". | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Clock, time, time management. Time expression – formal and informal. "Который час?” Event time and venue "В котором часу...?” Years, birthdays – ordinal numbers from 1 to 10 and over 10. Reflexive verbs. Holidays, celebrations, traditions. Genitive of the noun with negation "нет, не было, не будет". Dative of personal pronouns "Сколько вам/тебе лет? Мне 20 лет/21 год". | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Food, dishes, drinks. Shopping at a grocery store, shop departments. Meals; menu, speaking in a cafe or restaurant. The conjugation of the verbs "есть, пить, любить, завтракать, обедать, ужинать". Accusative of the noun without prepositions. Imperative. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Transport and traffic. Travel. Hotels. Conjugation of the verbs "ехать, ездить, идти, ходить". Adverbs of place "где?” "– здесь, там, справа, слева..." and adverbs of direction "куда?" "– сюда, туда, направо, налево...” | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Nature of Russia. Tour of Russian cities and towns. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | My daily routine. Planning of a weekday. Perfective and imperfective verbs, their forms and usage. Perfective verb prefixes "вы-, на-, по-, под-, при- про-, с-, за-, у-". Adverbs of imperfective verbs. "Как часто? – всегда, иногда, часто, редко, обычно, долго". The future tense – simple and compound future; future tense forms and conjugation. Interplay between perfective and imperfective verbs. The dative case of the noun – "Кому? Чему?” | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | People, their appearance, personalities, clothes. Body parts; health and disease, pain, complaints. Speaking about health. Present and past forms of the vebs "болен, больна, болит, болеть, заболеть". Structure Dative + "нужно, можно, нельзя"+ Infinitive. Conditionals with "если". | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Education, university, faculties; my studies, study courses. Biography. The shortened form of adjectives. The comparative and superlative of adjectives and adverbs. The subordinate clauses of cause, consequence, and purpose. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | Leisure, leisure options in Latvia and Russia, sightseeing, favourite places, sports. Instrumental of the noun without prepositions. "Кем? Чем?” without a preposition. The subordinate clauses with conjunctions "который, которая, которые". | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 15 | Russian art, music, folklore: folk songs, fairy tales, legends, proverbs, sayings and riddles. Outstanding Russian writers, artists and scientists. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 16 | Revision of the course material before the final examination. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Home assignments to acquire active vocabulary and grammatical structures. Individual, pair and group work - preparation of dialogues, tasks and presentations according to the course topics. Students are obliged to fill in the course evaluation questionnaire at the end of the course. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Regular attendance of classes is required. Active participation in practical classes, home assignments completed for each class. Test at the end of each module, which may include reading, listening, language use, writing and speaking skils, in which at least 55% of the answers must be corred to receive a pass. At the end of the 3rd and 4th semester, a semester test with a cumulative assessment, taking into account the results of the tests and participation in the course during the semester. Examination at the end of the course, which may include reading, listening, writing and speaking skils and vocabulary use. The final grade consists of; examination - 20%: average grade of tests - 70%: attendance - 10%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Having acquired the course material, students will know the rules of Russian pronunciation and writing, the basic Russian vocabulary, basic statements and questions, correct word order in the sentence; phrases required for starting and maintaining communication, information exchange; common Russian language patterns; the formation and use of Russian verbs in the past, present, and future. Students are aware of the aspekts of intercultural ralations in the use of language. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Having acquired the course material, students will be able: to comprehend simple texts on familiar everyday topics, letters, invitations, advertisements in media and other authentic materials; to use the acquired language in everyday communicative situations,to retell and paraphrase the text expressing own opinion, including the consideration of intercultural communucation aspects. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Having acquired the course material, students will be able: to give some information about themselves, their family, living conditions and studies; to produce an invitation or a personal letter, short messages, put down some information; to produce a monologue or to participate in a dialogue on various topics related to daily routine and studies, while demonstrating awareness of the intercultural aspects of communication. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Русский сезон, Учебник по-русскому языку,Элементарный уровень, Златоуст, 2019 | ||||||||
| 2 | Русский сезон, Рабочая тетрадь, Златоуст, 2018 | ||||||||
| 3 | Шкатулка, Пособие по чтению для иностранцев, начинающих изучать русский язык, Москва, 2018 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | M.Krasnais, V.Pužule, G.Silakalne Грамматика лeгко и просто Krievu valodas gramatikas rokasgrāmata; Zvaigzne ABC 2014 | ||||||||
| 2 | Krievu-latviešu vārdnīca ar skaidrojumiem un piemēriem; Zvaigzne ABC 2005 | ||||||||
| 3 | Ekonomijas skaidrojoša vārdnīca; Zinātne 2000 | ||||||||
| 4 | Vārdnīca 7 valodas biežāk lietotie vārdi un to izplatītākās nozīmes; Avots 2003 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.russian.language.ru | ||||||||
