Course Details

Russian for Pre-Intermediate Students

Academic Year 2026/27

VYR003 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

The aim of the course is to develop students' Russian vocabulary and grammar to the A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Topics: education; getting around the city; means of transport; shopping.

Grammar: prepositional constructions; declension of nouns and pronouns; verb conjugation; the infinitive; animate and inanimate nouns; indeclinable nouns.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Mgr. Lucie Strnadová

Institute

Institute of Social Sciences

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Students are expected to have a good command of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, vocabulary, and conversational skills related to the following topics: introducing oneself; telephone conversations; nationalities; visiting people; family; occupations; leisure time; hobbies; school.

Students are expected to have knowledge of the following grammar: numbers; verb conjugation; reflexive verbs; declension of nouns and pronouns; dates; the past tense; formal and informal forms of address.

Aims

The aim of the course is to develop students' Russian vocabulary and grammar at the A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The course also develops the skills required to read, translate, and produce moderately complex texts in Russian.

Basic Literature

Studijní materiály zpracované vyučující předmětu. (ru)
JELÍNEK, Stanislav a kol.: Raduga 2 po novomu. Plzeň: Fraus, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7238-700-7. (ru)

Prerequisites

Students are expected to have a good command of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, vocabulary, and conversational skills related to the following topics: introducing oneself; telephone conversations; nationalities; visiting people; family; occupations; leisure time; hobbies; school.

Students are expected to have knowledge of the following grammar: numbers; verb conjugation; reflexive verbs; declension of nouns and pronouns; dates; the past tense; formal and informal forms of address.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/306413

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

Lesson 1: Introduction; revision

Lesson 2: School – revision; school subjects

Lesson 3: Education; timetable; declension of pronouns (who, what); prepositional constructions 

Lesson 4: Education; types of schools; declension of nouns (masculine and feminine gender, singular)

Lesson 5: Getting around the city; conjugation of the verbs to go/walk, can

Lesson 6: Means of transport; infinitive constructions

Lesson 7: Shopping; conjugation of the verbs to buy, ask,take; nominative and genitive plural of selected nouns

Lesson 8: Shopping; clothes; food; movable -o- and -e- in nouns; accusative plural of animate and inanimate nouns

Lesson 9: Landmarks; declension of nouns (neuter gender, singular)

Lesson 10: Landmarks; indeclinable nouns; prepositional constructions – revision

Lesson 11: Prague – landmarks; nominative and genitive plural of nouns (feminine and neuter gender)

Lesson 12: Prague; declension of plural nouns – revision

Lesson 13: Revision and course summary