AU Student

Delivery Method: Online scheduled sessions.

This course is for you if you have attended Russian Higher Intermediate or similar or have a good command of Russian and want to re-activate and build upon your comprehension and expression. 

Course Description

This course is for you if you have attended Russian Higher Intermediate or similar or have a good command of Russian and want to re-activate and build upon your comprehension and expression. 

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 and discuss holidays and problems encountered 

• Discuss property issues: prices, adverts. 

• Expand shopping 

• Discuss tourism and its implications 

• Discuss about environmental issues: weather, energy, transport 

• Discuss the Russian media and audience habits 

• Discuss the Russian national press 

• Discuss health issues: i.e. hospitals, policies, treatments, alternatives