Course Details

Russian for Pre-Intermediate Students 2

Academic Year 2025/26

VYR004 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Topics - meeting friends, appearance, human body, clothes; writing a letter, character and personality adjectives; seasons, weather, time, date
Grammar - phrases different from Czech, conjugation of verbs, inflexion of adjectives, date, substantivized adjectives, pronouns, phrases "it is necessary, it has to be", year, time, proximity

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 should master Russian alphabet well, vocabulary and conversation on the following topics - introducing, phoning, nationalities, on a visit, family, jobs, free time, hobbies, school, orientation in the city, means of transport, shopping, Moscow and Petersburg, Prague. Students should accomplish the following grammar - numerals, conjugation of verbs, reflexive verbs, infinitive, inflexion of nouns and pronouns, inanimate and animate nouns, indeclinable nouns, prepositional phrases, date, past tense, using "vy" when addressing a person.

Aims

The aim of the subject is to achieve pre-intermediate level of Russian both in vocabulary and grammar. Then also the student´s ability to read, translate and make slightly difficult Russian texts.
Student will accomplish the aim of the subject if he achieves a pre-intermediate level of Russian both in vocabulary and grammar and if he is also able to read, translate and make slightly difficult Russian texts.

Basic Literature

JELÍNEK, Stanislav. Raduga 3: po-novomu. Plzeň: Fraus, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7238-772-4. (ru)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/294986

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.Introduction, Unit 1 - Meeting friends
  • 2.Unit 1 - Meeting friends
  • 3.Unit 2 - Appearance
  • 4.Unit 2 - Appearance
  • 5.Unit 2 - Appearance
  • 6.Unit 3 - Clothes
  • 7.Unit 3 - Clothes
  • 8.Unit 4 - Character and personality adjectives
  • 9.Unit 4 - Character and personality adjectives
  • 10.Unit 4 - Character and personality adjectives
  • 11.Unit 5 - Weather
  • 12.Unit 5 - Weather
  • 13.Revision, summary, games