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New Beginner Course   by Natasha Meleshkevish

   

 

Date: Monday through Sunday

Time: See the current Schedule

Location: Bookvar Russian Language School 

Duration:  2-6 hours per week

Materials required:

· Textbook: Farmer, Rachel. Beginner’s Russian.  2002

· Russian-English, English-Russian dictionary

· 2 notebooks (70 page, spiral)

 Lots of enthusiasm

 

 

 Course Objectives:

To enable students to maintain basic conversation in Russian,

To ensure that the students are able to distinguish cursive alphabets letters from the printed ones,

To introduce basic concepts in Russian such as colors, days of the week, months, numerals, etc.

To promote students interest in reading authentic literary texts small in scope

To develop further students’ appreciation and understanding of a different  culture

N.B. At the end of each class there will be some  time allocated for parents whose children attend Russian school in order to help them  relate to the level of their children’s language  learning and to assist them better for maximal results.

 

 Methods of Teaching

· Small group work

· Lectures

· Modelling

· Articulation surf

· Incorporation of multiple intelligence (TPR, etc.)

· Weekly journals ( requires one notebook)

Course dictionary (requires a separate notebook with each page divided into three columns: 1)word entry in Russian, 2)transcription and 3) translation into English).

 

 Methods of assessment:

· Weekly in-class quizzes

· Journal entries

· Oral comprehension (dictations)

· Final test in August

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