Delivery Method: Face-to-face scheduled sessions.

Venue: D59 Hugh Owen, Penglais Campus.

This course is aimed at students who have attended Beginners 2 or similar or have a basic knowledge of Russian. It will introduce students to contemporary Russian, developing all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. 

Course Description

This course is aimed at students who have attended Beginners 2 or similar or have a basic knowledge of Russian. It will introduce students to contemporary Russian, developing all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. 

The module will equip students with a very basic knowledge of the countries where Russian is spoken and encourage their curiosity about the language, the country, the people, their environment, society, traditions and culture. It will enable the student to reach a level of very basic competence in the four main areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

The student will acquire basic language skills, to enable students to:

• Expand upon daily routines
• Describe houses, buildings and places.
• Go to the cinema, theatre, events (writing and speaking activities)
• Tell about their life story
• Give reasons and discuss matters: live story, past events, sports,
• Complain about things
• Compare and contrast things: i.e films seen, houses, etc.
• Food vocabulary (nouns and verbs) and idiomatic expressions
• Weather vocabulary and idiomatic expressions