Speak Russian Online!
Speak Russian Online!

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
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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 
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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- 
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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
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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
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