Available as an outside option to all undergraduate and General Course students. Students can take this course in any year of their studies following approval from the teacher responsible and subject to their own programme regulations.
Available as an outside option to all undergraduate and General Course students. Students can take this course in any year of their studies following approval from the teacher responsible and subject to their own programme regulations.
50 hours of classes in the MT. 50 hours of classes in the LT. 5 hours of classes in the ST. Five hours per week, which will feature: (a) interactive topical work; (b) oral practice; (c) grammar and vocabulary work; (d) tutorials; and (e) guided study using IT and web-based materials. Structured activities during the reading week. This course has reading weeks in week 6 of Michaelmas and Lent terms.
Students will be required to complete weekly language exercises.
Colloquial Russian, by Svetlana Le Fleming and Susan Kay, Routledge, 2017; Additional (cultural awareness):?Nicholas Rzhevsky, Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture, Cambridge University Press, 2012
Exam (30%, duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes) in the summer exam period. Oral examination (30%) in the ST. Continuous assessment (40%) in the MT and LT. Language courses map to the Common European Framework for Language Learning.? This framework defines linguistic proficiency in the four language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) at different levels.? To pass this course, students are therefore required to achieve a pass mark in each element of the assessment (continuous assessment, oral and written exams), as these test all four skills.