Course outline – 20 & 30 weeks 
                Language: Russian 
                Level: 1 
                Course book:  
                Ruslan Russian 1: A Communicative Russian Course (5th Edition) by John Langran, Natalya Veshnyeva. Ruslan Ltd; (October 2012) 
                ISBN: 9781899785827 (Book without CD)  
                ISBN: 9781899785834 (Book with audio CD) 
                              Topics and Vocabulary                                      Grammar                                    Communicative objectives 
                    Russian – a non-European language, specifics            “The/A” in Russian                                 Introduction to the language/alphabet
                    and difficulties. General overview                      Verb “To be” in Russian                            Greetings in Russian
                                                                            Intonation of questions                            Introducing yourself (I am, who are you…)
                    Sounds/stress in Russian.                               Gender of nouns                                    Rising/falling intonation in questions
                    Alphabet. Handwriting                                   possessive pronouns                                Talking about professions/jobs
                                                                            my/your –мой(я)твой(я)/ваш(а)                       (international words)
                    Airport                                                 what/who is it- что/кто это                        Basic vocabulary to get around at Russian
                                                                            or-или                                              airports/  going through visa and passport
                                                                            he/she/it-он/она/это                                control
                                                                            professions                                        Recognising airport sings
                                                                            Structures “I know/You know” and verb              Addresses in Russian
                                                                             conjugation with personal pronouns                 Asking/giving directions
                      Street                                                Prepositions “В\НА”                                Places of visits
                                                                            Imperatives                                        Talking about ages
                                                                            There is “есть/ здесь есть”                        Asking/giving telephone numbers
                                                                            Numbers 1-10, 10-100                               Business cards
                                                                            Pronoun “IT”
                    Family                                                  The genitive case : singular of masculine          The Russian name system and some
                                                                             and feminine nouns                                  common Russian names
                                                                            Common use of the case                             Greetings in Russian and basic
                                                                            «Можно\нельзя» constructions                        conversation when meeting people
                                                                            Spelling rule after Ы\И
                                                                                                                                               Talking about different members of the 
                                                                                                                                                family 
                                                                                                                                               Family tree 
                       Places we have been to                                                                                                  Describing places we have been to using 
                                                                                     Past Tense: how and when to use                           Past tense 
                                                                                     Verbs infinitives на ать,ять,ить and                     Russian seasons and months of the year 
                                                                                      the full Present Tense forms                             Talking about our birthdays  
                                                                                     Feminine nouns на –ия                                    Difference between English YOU and 
                                                                                     Prepositional case with В\НА                              Russian ТЫ\ВЫ 
                                                                                       
                       Hotel                                                         The short form of adjectives                             Learning days of the week 
                                                                                     Past tense                                               Basic “Hotel” vocabulary  
                                                                                     Imperfective and perfective verbs aspects                Booking a room/filling in registration form 
                                                                                     Russian “c”=from                                         Asking whether places open or closed 
                                                                                     I have/you have= У меня есть 
                                                                                     Genitive case with « У меня нет...» 
                                                                              
                       Restaurant                                                    Neuter nouns                                             Food and drink vocabulary  
                                                                                     Accusative case                                          How to order a meal in a Russian 
                                                                                     Adjectives in the nominative case                         restaurant 
                                                                                     Which? = какой                                            
                                                                              
                       About ourselves                                               Neuter forms of verbs                                    Talking about what we like to do in our 
                                                                                     About + prepositional case                                free time 
                                                                                     Neuter Nouns на мя                                       Area/town we live in 
                                                                                     Numbers above 100 
                                                                                     Impersonal expressions and adverbs from 
                                                                                      adjectives 
                       Time                                                          The nominative pl.of nouns and adjectives                Talking about time in whole hours 
                                                                                     Genitive plural of masculine nouns                       Time zones in Russia 
                                                                                     Short adjective «нужен»                                  Making/answering a phone call 
                                                                                     Short adjectives in plural 
                                                                                      The irregular verb «мочь»