05578 - Russian Language II

Learning outcomes

Deepen the linguistic, communicative and intercultural competences. 
Develop the skills of oral and written comprehension, oral and written expression.
Consolidate the word-study of the political language. Develop the ability to search and elaborate material about the historical, cultural, economic and geo-political aspects of the country.
Consolidate the skills of oral and written comprehension, oral and written expression on the civilization, the culture and the current affairs.

Course contents

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 accusative case with and without preposition.  
Characteristics of the prepositive case with and without preposition. 
Characteristics of the dative case with and without preposition. 
Characteristics of the genitive case with and without preposition. 
Characteristics of the instrumental case with and without preposition. 

Verb 

Verbs of motion without prefix:  idti/chodit' (to go by foot), ekhat'/ezdit' (to go by means of transport), bezhat'/begat' (to run), letet'/letat' (to fly), plyt'/plavat' (to swim), nesti/nosit' (to bring), vezti/vozit' (to transport), vesti/vodit' (to lead). 

Verbs of motion with prefixes: 
the prefix po- to indicate the beginning of a movement; 
prefixes pri- (to arrive)/u- (to leave);
v- (vo) (to enter)/vy- (to exit); 
pod- (to get closer)/ot- (to go away); 
do- (to reach); 
pro- (to go beyond)/pere- (to cross, to move). 

Notions on the verbal aspects, in particular with the verbs of motion: main meanings and characteristics.

Syntax 

The complex sentence:  the subordinate clauses. 
Complementary subordinate clauses: 
the conjunction chto in order to express information, thought, feeling;
the conjunction chtoby to express desire, necessity, order; 
the conjunction kak to express one perception; 
the conjunction esli in order to express question or uncertainty in the indirect speech or interrogative clause;
the conjunction potomu chto; 
the conjunction tak kak.

Consecutive subordinate clauses:  the conjunction poetomu.
Concessive subordinate clauses: the conjunction khotja. The expression nesmotrja na to. 
The conjunctions esli and kogda in order to express a hypothetical period. 
Complex sentences with a clause of purpose:  the conjunction chtoby.
Relative subordinate clauses: the attributive pronoun kotoryj.

Readings/Bibliography

- Chernyshov S. I., Poekhali!, "Zlatoust", SPb, 2007.

- Berardi S. - Buglakova L., Kraski - A2. Corso comunicativo multimediale per l'autoapprendimento della lingua russa di livello A2, Clueb, Bologna, 2006.

- S.A. Khavronina, A. I. Shirochenskaya, Russian in exercises, Moskow, Russkij Jazyk Kursy, 2007.

- A.D. Krivonosov, T.Ju. Red'kina, Znaju i ljublju russkie glagoly, Sankt-Peterburg, Zlatoust, 2000.

- Chernyshov S. I.,  Chernyshova A.V., Poekhali! 2.1, Bazovyj kurs, Zlatoust, SPb, 2007.

 - Il Kovalev seconda edizione con Cd-rom per Windows, Dizionario russo-italiano italiano-russo di Vladimir Kovalev, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2000.

Students will be given articles about actuality and politics taken from the Internet and the most popular newspapers and Russian reviews. 

www.google.ru ; www.yandex.ru ; www.testor.ru ; www.torfl.it ; www.kremlin.ru ; http://www.government.gov.ru/government/ ;

 www.smi.ru ; www.aif.ru ; www.rian.ru ; www.metro.ru ; www.hermitage.ru ; www.bolshoi.ru ;  http://www.tretyakov.ru/ ;

 

Teaching methods

The course is articulated in 30 hours of frontal lesson, in which the linguistic competences are mainly developed, and in 40 hours of laboratory activities, that privilege the communicative competences. 50 hours of self-learning with multimedia material and research in Internet are recommended.

Assessment methods

The students are asked to do a written examination and an oral test. 

The written test is to verify the linguistic competences, in particular elements of morphology and word-study, including the ability of written comprehension. 

The oral test is focused on the communicative competences, on the ability of oral expression. In particular, the students are asked to find authentic material in Internet and to prepare a paper to expose during the final examination.

Teaching tools

PC - computer – language laboratory with Internet; video projector; video recorder.

Links to further information

http://www.cliro.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Simona Berardi