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RUSS 1020: Elementary Russian II: Unit 1

An OER for Prof. Victoria Barsky, Fall 2023

About Unit 1

Unit I: Topics 1-3

  1. Basic grammar: nouns. Function: identifying greater number of objects with nouns.
    1. Diminutive forms of animate and inanimate nouns
    2. Accusative singular- animate and inanimate
    3. Irregular plural
    4. Genitive singular and plural- possession
    5. Prepositional plural- location
    6. Accusative plural- direct object
    7. Dative singular and plural - indirect object
  2. Basic grammar: adjectives. Function: Describing people, objects and places.
    1. Prepositional singular and plural. Function: expressing location of people and objects
    2. Accusative singular and plural. Function: describing people, objects and places
    3. Genitive singular and plural
    4. Dative singular and plural
    5. Russian last names that decline like adjectives
  3. Basic grammar: verbs
    1. Irregular verb "TO BE"
    2. Verbal aspect: perfective and imperfective. Function: ability to distinguish between continuing and completed action.
    3. Using adverbs of time with verbs
    4. Stress
    5. Future tense of imperfective verbs
    6. Future tense of perfective verbs g. Second conjugation of verbs

Topic 1

Topic 1 Resources

“Alphabet Lesson 1.” Accessed August 12, 2023. https://h5p.org/node/67297.

“Alphabet Lesson 2.” Accessed August 12, 2023. https://h5p.org/node/68276.

“Alphabet Lesson 3.” Accessed August 12, 2023. https://h5p.org/node/72531.

“Week 1 - Class Presentation.Pptx RUSS 1020.” Fall 2023. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/05jnnifgj95agrg4ornyd/week-1-class-presentation.pptx?rlkey=dec96v3fdeqlnfeujbdns2eta&dl=0.

 

 

Topic 2

Topic 2 Resources

Barsky, Victoria. “Week 2. Review All about Me.Pdf.” Accessed August 12, 2023..

———. “Week 2.Pptx. Noun; Noun Gender; Animate / Inanimate.” Accessed August 12, 2023.

 

Topic 3