Upon the successful completion of the Language Immersion Course Russian 1, students will acquire the following competencies related to the Russian language:

• understand and use the Russian alphabet (on the PC or tablet)
  
• form and understand simple sentences
  
• read and write simple texts
  
• understand simple audio messages
  
• introduce themselves
  
• give information about their family and extracurricular activities
  
• give information about the home town and language skills
  
• form basic dialogues about everyday routine
  
• make basic telephone enquires
  
• talk about time and week schedules
  

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This is a beginners' course for students with little or no prior Russian language knowledge (at CEF level A1). The following language topics will be covered in this module:

• the Russian alphabet
• phonetics
• intonation
• Personal pronouns in the nominative and accusative cases. The structure of "Menja zovut..."
• Genus of nouns
• The possessive pronouns
• The plural of the nouns
• Introduction to the prepositional case
• Conjugation of the verbs "rabotat' " and "učit'sja" in the present tense
• Special endings of the prepositional case
• The verbs "byt' "and "žit' "
• The past tense of the verb
• The endings of adjectives in the nominative case
• Verbs in the present and past tense (govorit', čitat', pisat', znat') [????????, ??????, ??????, ?????] and others
• Use of adjectives (with all possible endings in the nominative case) and adverbs in conversation about languages (Russian, in Russian)
• The difference between "učit'sja" and "izučat' "
• Special forms of the word "dom"
• Interrogative pronoun "kakoj"
• Exclamation clauses
• The accusative case with the days of the week
• Introduction to numerals.
• Endings of the word "čas" after numerals
• Accusative case in the meaning of "direction of travel"
• Instrumental case with parts of the day

• Forms of greeting, dating and farewell
• Acquaintance
• Expression of courtesy
• Family and relatives
• Professions and places of work
• Nationalities and countries
• Description of the home town
• Languages and language skills
• Expression of desires and preferences
• Hobbies
• Description of subjects by using adjectives
• Days of the week, time and everyday activities
• The adverbs of time (e.g. always, often)

• Meet and greet: "Hello, student!"
• How to introduce myself and a friend
• How to describe my family
• Talking about professions
• Russia - my home country. Where do you come from?
• Languages and communication
• Days of the week and time
• Daily routine

Red Kalinka (ed.). Sistema Kalinka 1. Gijón: Red Kalinka.
Daum, E. & Schenk, W. (1998). Die russischen Verben. Leipzig/Wien: Langenscheidt.
Daum, E. & Schenk, W. (2009). Handwörterbuch Russisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Russisch. Berlin/Wien: Langenscheidt.
Kohls, S. (1995). Russische Grammatik. Leipzig/Berlin/München: Langenscheidt/Verlag Enzyklopädie.

• Lecture and presentation
  
• Group and pair work
  
• Role plays
  
• Learning games
  
• Blended learning
  
• Homework

Integrated module exam (immanent examination character):

• Final written exam (60%)
  
• Oral exam (30%)
  
• Active participation and homework (10%) according to CEFR (understanding, speaking, writing, grammar)