This is a module designed for students who completed Russian Beginners A1 Part 3 or have completed a course in Russian language of a similar level. This module aims to develop your oral, aural and written skills using some basic information on the Russian life, history and literature and expand further the range of simple expressions about personal details and needs of a concrete type studied in Parts 1-3.

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

• Understand simple texts and expressions related to everyday life, Russian culture, history and literature (e.g. very basic information about the seasons, weather, time of the day, theatre plays, films and TV programmes, transport as well as some simple introductory materials on Russian history and literature).
• Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
• Describe in simple terms aspects of everyday life, with an accent on travelling, asking and telling the time, going to places and asking / giving directions.

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.

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:

• Understand spoken phrases and the highest frequency vocabulary related to areas of most immediate personal relevance; catch the main point in spoken short, clear, simple messages.
• Read very short, simple texts; find specific, predictable information in simple everyday material.
• Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar topics and activities.
• Write short, simple notes and messages relating to matters in areas of immediate needs.

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.

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%). 

• Revision of the topics ‘The Weather and Seasons’; ‘Telling the Time’; ‘Food and Visits to a Restaurant, Café, Bar etc’;
• Talk and enquire about the studied Russian historical events;  
• Talk and enquire about the relevant Russian writers and poets;
• Enquire/express preferences on travelling arrangements;  
• Talk and write messages using the past, present and future tenses of perfective and imperfective verbs.

TEXTBOOK TO BE CONFIRMED.  SOME MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON LEARNING CENTRAL.