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Upper Intermediate Level

Module 1

Module 2

Module 3

Module 4

Module 5

Module 1

Life in a city

You will learn the following themes:

Reading and discussing stories by Soviet and Russian authors about
Life in a city
City architecture,
Famous sites
Historic buildings
Going to the theater

You will practice the following grammatical structures:

Чтобы + infinitive
Нужно + infinitive
Не только ..., но и ...
The pronoun свой
The short adjective согласен, согласна, согласны
Dative case with нравиться
Dative case with age expressions
Model words можно, нужно, нельзя, надо

Module 2

Job, career and vocation

You will learn the following themes:

Reading and discussing stories by Soviet and Russian authors about
Job, career, vocation

You will practice the following grammatical structures:

The difference between знать, мочь, and уметь
Irregular comparative of adjectives and adverbs
The construction чем, ... тем
Unprefixed verbs of motion

Module 3

Science

You will learn the following themes:

Talking about directions
Reading and discussing stories by Soviet and Russian authors about:

Scientific discoveries
Geographic discoveries
Exploration of space
Russian climate, culture and traditions

You will practice the following grammatical structures:

Using the prefix по- with verbs of motion
Prefixed verbs of motion при-, у-, в-вы-, до-, про- за-, пере-, под-, от- а-, пере-, под-, от-

Module 4

Personal relationship

You will learn the following themes:

Talking about dating and personal relationships
Cultural differences
Immigration
Superstitions and customs
Tourism, sports

You will practice the following grammatical structures:

Reflexive constructions
Impersonal negative constructions
Constructions with нечего, некогда, негде etc
Long and short forms of adjectives
Use of short form adjectives
Using aspect in imperative forms
Third-person imperative: пусть

Module 5

Theatre, music and ballet

You will read and discuss text about Russian culture:

Reading about theatre
Reading about music
Reading about ballet

You will practice the following grammatical structures:

Formation and use of active participles: present and past tense
Formation and use of passive participles: present and past tense (long and short forms)
Formation and use of verbal adverbs
Complex sentences with dependent clauses introduced by то