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Level A1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)

This course will teach you how to describe various professions, speak on the phone, make arrangements and describe your life. Grammatical themes taught include the use of adverbs, various tenses and locative cases. All of this material will be presented with an emphasis on developing your Cyrillic alphabet understanding as well as other reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• identify simple concepts used in Russian grammar, such as tenses and cases
• talk about the locations of things and people, using locative case
• hold a simple phone conversation, ask a person to come the phone, leave a message etc
• talk about where you work and live, the language/s you speak and the things you like to do using the present tense
• use numbers 1 to 100
• use adverbs of time
• talk about places being open and closed
• discuss past and future events using past and future tenses.

Content

• Locative case: where - prepositions: in, on, at
• Telephone etiquette - masculine animate nouns in accusative case
• Present tense of verbs - conjugation 1: to work, to live
• Present tense of verbs - conjugation 2: to