95458 - Russian Language and Linguistic Exercises 1 - B

Course contents

Teacher: Godova Y.

Morphology:

Declination of the nouns, the adjectives, the pronouns.
Gender and number of the nouns, the adjectives and the pronouns.
Characteristics of the nominative case.
Characteristics of the prepositive case with and without preposition.
Characteristics of the accusative case with and without preposition.
Characteristics of the genitive case with and without preposition.
Characteristics of the dative case with and without preposition.
Characteristics of the instrumental case with and without preposition.

Verb:

I and II conjugation.
Present tense, past tense, future tense (imperfective).

Transitive, intransitive, reflexive verbs.

Notion on the main verbs of motion without prefix.

Notions on the verbal aspects.

Syntax:

Simple statements, interrogative and negative sentences.

Readings/Bibliography

Khavronina S. A., Shirochenskaya A. I., Russian in exercises, Russky Yazyk Kursy, 2009

Students will be given articles and other materials by the teacher published in Virtuale.

Additional readings:

- C. Cevese, J. Dobrovolskaja, E. Magnanini, Grammatica russa. Manuale di teoria, Livelli A1-B2 del Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento per le Lingue, Terza edizione, Hoepli, Milano, 2018.

- N. Nikitina, Esercizi di russo, livello A1, Hoepli, Milano, 2023.

- N. Nikitina, E. F. Piredda, Grammatica d’uso della lingua russa. Teoria ed esercizi. Livello A1. Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento per le Lingue, Hoepli, Milano, 2017.

Teaching methods

The hours of laboratory activities in the first and second semester privilege the communicative competences and practical language skills.

The tutorial lessons are part of the course and will be part of the exam program.

Assessment methods

Two mid-term tests to access the oral exam with the average grade, structured as follows, are planned in the second semester:

1 test (50%) - April 2025:

• ·nominative case
• regular and irregular verbs (present, past and future tenses
• prepositive case
• ·verbs denoting studying activities
• accusative case
• ·verbs of motion
  
  

2 test (50%) - May 2025:

• genitive case
• dative case
• instrumental case

The written tests in itinere verify the practical contents of linguistics introduced in class and detailed in the course program. The individual partial tests cannot be repeated. In the event that the final grade of the mid-term tests, given by the sum of the percentages of the individual tests, is not satisfactory, the total written exam (which includes all the contents verified in the two tests) must be taken during the normal sessions scheduled during the academic year. All attending and non-attending students can participate in the tests. To access the written partial tests, it will be necessary to register on the lists that will be opened on Almaesami.

The oral test is focused on the communicative competences, on the ability of oral expression. The first part of the oral test is in Russian and is dedicated to the skill of speaking on the main topics of everyday life and on issues related to areas developed during the course: students are able to understand and use basic expressions to meet practical elementary needs, introduce themselves and others, ask and answer questions about personal details such as the place where they live in, work or study, provide information about relatives or friends and objects that possess, formulate expressions of greetings, thanks, apologies, express additional time elements.

The second part of the oral exam is focused on the linguistics theoretical contents of the course programme.

The final grade is the result of the average between the written exam and the oral examinations.

Teaching tools

PC, Microsoft Teams, Virtuale, EOL.

Office hours

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