First week
(Jan. 13, 15)
Tuesday - Введение в курс.
Thursday
-
Examine and learn the vocabulary on pp. 1-3. We shall go
over these lexical items. Read and understand
the material pp. 3-9. Be ready to do the exercises on pp.
9-10.
Second
week (Jan. 20, 22)
Tuesday - Do the exercises on pp.
9-10. This means: prepare them FULLY at home and
learn the grammatical points contained
in them. Read to the bottom of page 13 and
acquire the grammatical concepts.
Thursday
-
Do the exercises on pp. 3-14.
Read Verbs of Location and Position.
Do the exercises on pp. 15-16. Acquire the information on
pp. 16-17 and do the exercises on p,.
17.
Third week
(Jan. 27, 29)
Tuesday
- On p. 17 and 18,
there is critical information on the use of "generalized personal
sentences" and "indefinite personal sentences."
Read this material and do the exercises. Pp.
20-21 contain information on one of Russian's most common structures -
impersonal statements.
Read explanations and complete the exercises on p.
22. Read and absorb the material on pucntuation: the comma, the
dash, quotation marks...
- pp. 42-44
Thursday
-
Read the material on word order - pp. 22-25 and the comma (as
punctuation pp. 41, 42). the discussion of elent order is
material
similar to what we discuss in
Russian 101 and uses some of the same
classic examples. Do the
exercises. Examine the new vocabulary
in Chapter II, Geography. Begin to acquire
it!
Fourth week
(Feb. 3, 5)
Tuesday
- Read the
“Vocabulary Notes” and “Lexical Studies” pp. 49-56.
Do the exercises on p. 56. Read and
acquire what you do not know
up to p. 62.
Do the exercises. Watch the first
part of the DVD that comes with the book.
(Opening [very formal] Lecture – chapter
one. We will watch this
together. You will answer questions on the
content as I
start and stop the DVD.
Thursday
- Read pp.
56-64. This material discusses verbal aspect in a more
sophisticated approach than you have seen before. Even at the
advanced level, this is a "bear." Do the exercises within the reading. Finish
watching and attempting to
understand the first geography video.
Fifth week
(Feb. 10, 12)
Tuesday - Write a composition on geography -
your choiuce of area. The text should be double-spaced, at least
two pages and use the vocabulary
you are learning. Send it to me as an MS WORD
attached file (either WORD 2003 or 2007
[for MAC - 2003 or 2008]). In class we shall
watch a Russian
video - talk about it and translate its content.
Thursday
- Read pp. 65-73
and do all of the exercises. Some of this is new material; some
is review.
Sixth week
(Feb. 17, 19)
Tuesday
- Read
74-82. Pp. 83-87 contain the texts of the
videos. We shall watch the third (education) video in
class.
Preview it at home on
your own computers. Since the next essay will
concern the Russian system of education, learn as much as you can from
the video.
We shall go over the new vocabulary items - pp. 104-106.
Thursday
-
Pp. 107-112 contain the information on teaching/learning verbs. You
have seen most of this before. Now it is time to acquire
skill with these items. Please do the
exercises within these pages.
Seventh week
(Feb. 24, 26)
Tuesday
- Pp. 112 - 124,
including exercises. ORAL
PRESENTATION - talk about your education - preschool, grade school,
high school, univeristy, major, minor career
goals. Watch the Russian news from SCOLA.
When the SCOLA page loads go to
the top line and LOG IN. Userid:
VermontU10 Password:
Catamounts. Go to WORLD TV ON-LINE and choose the Russian
newscast.
It loads VERY slowly, even with a
t-1 connection.
Thursday
-
COMPOSITON - describe the general structure of the russian educational
system. At least two pages - double-spaced - sent as an
MS WORD attached file. Grammar - read pp. 112-120 and do
the exercises within the assignment.
Eighth
week
(March 3, 5)
Tuesday
- No class - Town Meeting
Day
Thursday
-
Watch the Russian news from
SCOLA. I have
set this up so that you need not log into the SCOLA site, BUT the
video, which
loads in QUICKTIME beause it is in an
MP4 format, loads so slowly that you may think your system has locked
up. We will
watch this newscast in class and work with it to prepare you for
upcoming assignments.
Ninth week (March 10, 12)
Srping Break - No class!
Tenth week
(March 17, 19)
Tuesday
- Read pp. 185-190
and learn the new vocabulary, whcih we will look over in class.
We shall also watch the video on politics. Be sure that
you have done a preview of it.
Thursday
-
Continue with the video on politics. Grammar - pp. 189-207 - do
the exercises. Go to the Tuesday, Feb. 24 assignment and download
a Russian newscast from which you will choose one
story for a Tuesday oral report.
Eleventh week
(March 24, 26)
Tuesday
- Oral report - graded
- choose one story and report on it. DO NOT READ your report -
talk the report. Be prepared to question presenters
and as presenters, to be questioned. If you
can make a DVD of the news you are reporting on, bring it to share with
the class.
Thursday
-
We shall view more of the politics video.
Twelfth week
(March 31, April 2)
Tuesday
- Oral report - graded
- choose one story and report on it. DO NOT READ your report -
talk the report. Be prepared to question presenters
and as presenters, to be questioned. If you
can make a DVD of the news you are reporting on, bring it to share with
the class.
Thursday
-We
shall view more of the politics video.
Thirteenth week
(April 7, 9)
Tuesday
- Oral report - graded
- choose one story and report on it. DO NOT READ your report -
talk the report. Be prepared to question presenters
and as presenters, to be questioned. If you
can make a DVD of the news you are reporting on, bring it to share with
the class.
Thursday
-
Please write a synopsis of
the politics video and send it as an MS WORD file. Please preview the Ecology video. We will go over the
base
vocabulary pp. 233-235, and begin working with it in class.
Fourteenth week (April 14, 16)
Tuesday - Oral
report - graded
- choose one story and report on it. DO NOT READ your report -
talk the report. Be prepared to question presenters
and as presenters, to be questioned. If you
can make a DVD of the news you are reporting on, bring it to share with
the class.
Thursday
-
Read Vocabulary Notes, pp.
235-237. Pp. 237-241 - "to use" in Rusian is not as omplex as it
appears... We will also watch and work with the
Ecology video.
Fifteenth week
(April 21, 23)
Tuesday
- No class
Thursday
- Oral
report - graded
- choose one story and report on it. DO NOT READ your report -
talk the report. Be prepared to question presenters
and as presenters, to be questioned. If you
can make a DVD of the news you are reporting on, bring it to share with
the class.
Please write a synopsis of
the ecology video and send it as an MS WORD file.
Sixteenth
week
(April 28)
Tuesday
- Class evaluation AND Brunch
in the seminar room - Fresh bagels, lox, cream cheese, Nalibow
coffee, tea and conversation!
Final Exam Friday May 1 @ 9am in 423
Waterman
Oral
final
- choose one news story and report on it. DO NOT READ your report
-
talk the report. Be prepared to question presenters
and as presenters, to be questioned. If you
can make a DVD of the news you are reporting on, bring it to share with
the class.