ML9422: Russian Beginners A1 Part 2

School Languages for All
Department Code MLANG
Module Code ML9422
External Subject Code 101151
Number of Credits 10
Level L4
Language of Delivery English
Module Leader Miss Nazaret Perez-Nieto
Semester Autumn Semester
Academic Year 2022/3

Outline Description of Module

This is a module designed for students who completed Russian Beginners A1 Part 1 or have completed a short introductory course in Russian language. This module aims to provide you with a very basic range of simple expressions about personal details and needs of a concrete type.

This module is the second part of the preparation for CEFR A1.

How the module will be delivered

All modules on the Languages for All programme are delivered on a hybrid mode, mixing face-to-face and virtual teaching. You will be expected to actively participate in role-plays, interactive activities and group discussions. Course material is accessible on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment, Learning Central, and should be cross-platform compatible.

18 contact hours – 2 hours per week of interactive language workshops

Skills that will be practised and developed

Intellectual Skills:

  • Enhanced cognitive skills leading to innovation, creativity and problem solving.
  • Critical analysis applied to discourse, texts, images and events.
  • Advanced listening and reading skills: the ability to scan complex texts (including audio) for gist, to synthesise information and focus on salient points.

Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

  • Recognise familiar words and very basic phrases concerning myself, my family and immediate concrete surroundings when people speak slowly and clearly.
  • Understand familiar names, words and very simple sentences.
  • Interact in a simple way provided the other person is prepared to repeat or rephrase things at a slower rate of speech; ask and answer simple questions in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.
  •  Write in short and simple sentences.

Transferable Skills:

  • Ability to learn additional languages for personal/employment reasons.
  • Awareness of and sensitivity to diversity based on culture.
  • Ability to navigate and mediate between more than one culture to interpret meaning and intent beyond the purely linguistic.
  • Heightened literacy, textual analysis and oracy in mother tongue.
  • Presentation skills.
  • Ability to work cooperatively, as a member of a team or with a partner.
  • Problem solving and the ability to look at things from multiple perspectives.

 

How the module will be assessed

All key language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as grammar and vocab) are assessed over the course of the module.

Written end of module test (50%) and course work (30%). 

Oral assessment (20%).  

Assessment Breakdown

Type % Title Duration(hrs)
Written Assessment 30 Coursework N/A
Oral/Aural Assessment 20 Speaking Test N/A
Class Test 50 End Of Module Test N/A

Syllabus content

  • Revision of formal and informal greetings, introduction of yourself and others;
  • Asking for and providing basic information on travelling around a town, learning to use the correct Russian forms of address (formal/informal);
  • Asking and answering questions about possessing property;
  • Counting in Russian;
  • Talking about your family and asking questions on the topic ‘My Family and I’;
  • Talk and write simple messages using nominative, prepositional and accusative cases of nouns; cardinal numerals; present tense of the verbs of 1st and 2nd conjugations, including exceptions.

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