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Intermediate Russian I
LAN-241
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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
LAN-241Intermediate Russian I expands students’ Russian vocabulary and enhances their conversational ability. The
course is conducted entirely in Russian and features extensive discussion of contemporary Russia and some grammar
review. 3 lectures, 3 credits Prerequisite: LAN 240 Russian II, with a grade of C or by permission of the Academic
Department Chair. General Education Course.
STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of the course requirements, students will be able to:
1. Communicate orally and in writing using different verb tenses and appropriate vocabulary;
2. Sustain constructive conversations on a wide range of topics with the instructor, peers, and native speakers,
using the appropriate level of speech with each;
3. Read selections of modern Russian literature, and engage the instructor and peers in conversation with an
analysis of the readings;
4. Write cohesive journals, essays, and letters, by hand and by computer;
5. Construct emails in Russian script;
6. Comprehend and describe a conversation that he/she has heard in various pair/group activities in the
classroom;
7. Define his/her particular areas of interest with Russia, develop these ideas in writing, and explain them orally
to the class;
8. Compare and contrast elements of the Russian history and culture with those of the student’s country of
origin;
9. Demonstrate cultural competency by examining and discussing historical and current political and cultural
events.
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ASSESSMENT METHODS:
Students will be assessed on the four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Each of these skills will be
assessed as follows:
1. A student’s oral and written communication will be determined by his/her participation in class discussions,
a final oral presentation, and student recordings, and usage of complex grammar patterns, sentences, and
paragraphs in written essays, weekly student journals, and on Midterm and Final exams,
2. A student’s ability to sustain constructive conversations will be assessed through daily conversation and
interaction (in Russian) with classmates, instructor, and invited guests, and his/her use of the appropriate
vocabulary and verb forms depending on the other’s status,
3. A student’s ability to read and analyze selections of Russian literature will be determined by his/her
recognition and comprehension of more complex quizzes and analysis of the selection’s significance
through periodic sight-readings, homework response essays, and classroom discussions,
4. A student’s writing ability will be determined by his/her usage of more complex quizzes, sentence
structures and vocabulary, and organization and expression of thoughts in weekly journal entries, weekly
quizzes, short essays and exams,
5. A student’s ability to construct emails in Russian will be assessed through frequent emailing to the
instructor and classmates,
6. A student’s comprehension and description of a situation will be assessed through use of audio CD’s,
videos, film, and pair/group performances,
7. A student’s ability to define, develop, and explain his/her area(s) of interest with Russia will be determined
by the completion of a final presentation, whose components will include a written proposal, an oral
presentation to the class, and subsequent discussion involving the entire class,
8. A student’s ability to compare and contrast histories and cultures will be determined by his/her participation
in classroom discussions, response essays, and journal entries,
9. A student’s cultural competency will be determined by his/her participation in discussions which examine
historical and current political and cultural events.
COURSE CONTENT AND CLASS SCHEDULE (Note to students: This class schedule is subject to change
depending on class progress):
Week/Date
Chapter/Topic/Assignments
Lesson Learning Objectives
Student
Learning
Objectives
1 (Week 1) Unit YIII
Textbook. Days 1-3.
Talking about what you intend to
buy at a store.
HW: workbook exercises.
1. Counting rule; counting items.
2. Expressing acceptance and
consent.
3. Genitive plural: nouns.
4. Expressing quantity; discussing
prices.
1, 2, 3
2 (Week 2) Textbook. Days 4-6.
Expressing age.
Telling time.
HW: workbook exercises.
1. Dative constructions.
2. Expressing age; expressing
obligation to do something.
3. Genitive plural: pronouns
and adjectives.
4. Должен in the past and future.
1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8
3 (Week 3) Textbook. Days 7-9.
Talking about making movies.
HW: workbook exercises.
1. Fill vowels.
2. Third declination nouns.
3. Expression of age in the past and
1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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in the future.
4. Снимать/снять.
4 (Week 4) Unit IX
Textbook. Days 1-3.
Expressing understanding.
Commenting on personal
resemblance.
Stating in what year something
happened.
HW: workbook exercises.
1. Motion verbs: идти and ехать
(unidirectional).
2. Adverbs of direction: куда, сюда,
туда.
3. Prepositions with motion verbs: в
and на + accusative.
4. Present tense of the verbs идти
and ехать with future meaning.
1, 3, 4, 8
5 (Week 5) Textbook. Days 4-6.
Indicating future planned actions.
Expressing habit
HW: workbook exercises.
1. Using motion verbs: ходить and
ездить (multidirectional).
2. Prepositions with motion verbs: no
+ dative case.
3. Prepositions with motion verbs: k
+ dative case.
1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8
6 (Week 6) Text book. Days 7-9.
Expressing a round trip.
Expressing directionless motion.
Saying that you went some place.
Saying that you went to someone’s
house or went somewhere to see
someone.
HW: workbook exercises.
1. Indefinite-personal constructions.
2. Imperatives.
3. Time expressions: “time when”
with dates of the month – the genitive
case.
4. Imperative sentences.
5. The verb носить.
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
7 (Week 7) Unit X
Text book. Days 1-3.
Expressing actions without a
specified agent.
Giving directions.
HW: workbook exercises.
1. Impersonal sentences.
2. Idiomatic expressions with motion
verb идти.
3. Impersonal sentences with modal
words можно and нельзя.
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
8 (Week 8) Textbook. Days 4-6.
Talking about driving a car and
when you got your driver’s license.
Talking about where you were
born.
HW: workbook exercises.
1. Subordinate clauses with что.
2. Не буд у больше + infinitive.
3. The demonstrative pronoun такой.
4. Instrumental singular: nouns.
5. Using the instrumental to express
agent of action.
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
9 (Week 9) Textbook. Days 7-9.
Describing what you wear in
different weather.
HW: workbook exercises.
1. Using the instrumental with the
preposition с.
2. Instrumental plural: nouns.
3. Instrumental of personal pronouns.
1, 5, 6, 7, 8
10 (Week
10)
Unit XI
Textbook. Days1-3.
Expressing/denying
HW: workbook exercises.
1. Instrumental singular and plural of
adjectives and demonstrative and
possessive pronouns.
2. Instrumental of interrogative
pronouns.
1, 3, 4, 5, 6
11 (Week
11)
Textbook. Days 4-6.
Specifying the instrument with
which you perform a given action.
E[pressing accompaniment.
HW: workbook exercises.
1. Verbs with particle –ся: passive
constructions интересоваться,
открываться, закрываться,
начинаться, кончаться.
2. Пойти and поехать in the past
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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and future tense.
3. Impersonal sentences with dative +
нужно + infinitive.
4. Без + genitive case.
12 (Week
12)
Textbook. Days 7-9.
Asking with whom or what people
do things.
Using reflexive verbs to express
passive action.
HW: workbook exercises.
1. Expressions with the preposition с
+ instrumental.
2. The verb заниматься.
3. Стать and forms of быть + the
instrumental case.
4. Relative clauses: который.
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
13 (Week
13)
Unit XII
Textbook. Days 1-3.
Expressing concern about someone.
Congratulating someone.
Wishing someone a happy birthday.
Talking about studying.
Talking about activities.
Discussing past, present and future
professions.
HW: workbook exercises.
1. The reflexive pronoun свой.
2. Verbs with particle –ся: reciprocal
action: познакомиться,
встречаться, видеться.
3. Находить/найти; находиться.
4. Diminutive suffix –ик in
masculine nouns.
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
14 (Week
14)
Textbook. Days 4-6.
Describing something in greater
detail using a relative clause.
Identifying ownership.
Expressing exasperation,
admiration, etc.
Talking about finding something.
Talking about location.
HW: workbook exercises.
1. Approximating numbers.
2. Назад: expressing “time when” in
the past.
3. The inclusive imperative
давай(те).
4. Comparatives: adjectives and
adverbs.
5. Чем in comparisons.
6. Genitive case in comparatives.
7. The prefix по- with motion verbs
идти and ехать.
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
15 (Week
15)
Textbook. Days 7-9.
Approximating times and
quantities.
Expressing how long ago
something happened.
Expressing an opinion.
Making suggestions and invitations.
Making comparisons.
HW: Language practices.
Final Examination.
1. Comparative forms with consonant
alternations.
2. Irregular comparatives.
3. Impersonal statements with the
dative case.
4. High-degree superlatives.
5. Impersonal statements in the past
and future.
6. Conditional sentences with если.
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
COURSE TEXTS / OTHER STUDY MATERIALS:
Required:
1. Russian Stage One: Live From Moscow! Volume II CD-ROM, 1998. Kendall/Hunt, ISBN 0-7872-4678-6.
2. The Russian Reference Grammar: Core Grammar in Functional Context by J. Watzke, J. Sweigert, Jr.,
Kendall/Hunt 1997, ISBN 0-7872-4467-8.
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Recommended:
Russian/English Dictionary
English/Russian Dictionary
Suggested Readings:
Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian, Book 1, 4/E, ISBN-10: 0131986287
ISBN-13: 9780131986282 Publisher: Prentice Hall, Copyright: 2007
PREPARATION EXPECTATIONS:
1. Each lesson should be prepared in advance.
2. Preview and listen to the audio of the assigned chapter before coming to class.
3. Class attendance is required.
4. Weekly quizzes may include vocabulary usage, character recognition, and/or reading comprehension.
5. No make-ups will be given on weekly quizzes.
GRADING:
The final grade in this course will be determined by a student’s overall mastery of the subject matter as
evidenced on exams, quizzes, oral presentations, homework assignments, and class participation:
o Weekly quizzes or drills 15%
o Midterm exam 20%
o Final comprehensive exam 20%
o Final presentation, including proposal,
oral presentation, and discussion 15%
o Homework, including workbook exercises
short essays, and weekly journal 15%
o Attendance, preparation, and active class
participation 15%
Grade Scale:
A 90-100% C+ 76-79% F 0-59%
B+ 86-89% C 70-75%
B 80-85% D 60-69%
BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ATTENDANCE POLICY:
All students are expected to attend punctually every scheduled meeting of each course in which they are
registered. Attendance and lateness policies and sanctions are to be determined by the instructor for each section
of each course. These will be established in writing on the individual course outline. Attendance will be kept by
the instructor for administrative and counseling purposes.
ATTENDANCE POLICY IN THIS COURSE:
The study of a foreign-language necessitates that students attend classes regularly in order to achieve proficiency.
Therefore, students are expected to attend and actively participate in every scheduled class meeting. Attendance will
be taken at the beginning of each class session. Each student is responsible for all material presented. If absent from
a class, students are responsible for obtaining materials missed, information on assignments, etc. by contacting a
classmate, or the instructor.
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Late homework, essays, and journals will be accepted no later than one class from the original due date and will be
given half-credit.
Quizzes will be given weekly, promptly at the beginning of the specified class period. Late students will not be given
extra time in which to complete the quiz. There will be no make-up for a missed quiz; missing a quiz is the
equivalent to a zero. Student will be permitted to drop lowest quiz grade. A make-up for an exam will be given only
in emergency situation. Official documentation to validate the nature of the absence is required.
WORLD LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
PLACEMENT POLICY
Students interested in study a world language at Bergen Community College may choose to either begin a new one or
continue the language studied previously. Students who have studied a world language in high school and have
received a grade B or better should enroll in the appropriate Bergen course as follows:
Years of Study: Register in:
Up to one Level I courses
(e.g. Russian I)
Two years Level II courses
(e.g. Russian II)
Three or more Level III or higher level courses
(e.g. Intermediate Russian I)
STUDENT AND FACULTY SUPPORT SERVICES
Services for Students with Disabilities
A wide variety of services are available to students with documented disabilities through the Office of Special Services
(OSS) [Room L-116; (201) 612-5270; www.bergen.edu\oss ]. OSS is dedicated to serving students with physical, visual,
learning, hearing, and psychiatric disabilities. If a student has been classified in high school or had a 504 plan, it is highly
recommended that the student contact OSS during the college application process. A more detailed explanation can be
found on the College web site www.bergen.edu Personal information is kept confidential. Examples of the types of
accommodations and services include:
Extended test taking time
Organizational strategies
Tutoring
Career counseling
Adaptive equipment computer labs
Note takers
Sign language interpreters
The Sidney Silverman Libraray
The Sidney Silverman Library is an integral part of the college’s educational programs. To support the curriculum,
the library acquires, organizes, and provides access to a variety print, media, and electronic resources for individual
and classroom use. It is open whenever classes are in session and on a reduced schedule when classes are not in
session. The library is open to all students, faculty, and general public. (BCC Catalog)
The library’s webpage, www.bergen.edu/library, is available for up-to-date information regarding library collections
and services.
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All of the required texts for the course will be made available on Reserve. Go to the library Circulation Desk for
access to the reserved copies.
GENERAL
All students are subject to the rules, regulations and policies set forth in the current Bergen Community College
Catalog.
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