University Russian (3)

Author: Ding Shuqi
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Publish Date: 1995-02-01
Features: This book is the main part of the third volume of the "Oriental" series university-level Russian textbooks jointly compiled by Beijing Foreign Studies University and the Pushkin Russian Language Institute. It is intended for the third semester. The teaching tasks for this stage are: 1. To teach commonly used vocabulary and sentence patterns within the scope of daily life, study, and general socio-cultural topics, cultivating students' listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, and developing their communicative abilities in dialogue and narration; 2. To continue teaching basic grammar points, laying a solid foundation in grammar; 3. To closely integrate reading, speech training, and grammar instruction to improve pronunciation and intonation; 4. To gradually develop independent work skills through reading texts and consulting vocabulary. The third volume consists of 12 lessons, covering over 960 new words (excluding supplementary texts) and more than 20 grammar points. The structure of the textbook is as follows:
I. Vocabulary and Speech Training
1. Model Sentences: Provide commonly used model sentences for the topic, enabling students to master these statements correctly and skillfully, preparing them for contextual dialogues.
2. Dialogue Examples: Demonstrate the application of model sentences in typical communicative situations for this topic. Dialogues include many words and phrases from the model sentences. Students should understand the content of the dialogues, grasp the usage of words, read and practice them accurately and fluently, retell the content, and create dialogues according to given scenarios or by following examples.
3. Main Text: Provides examples of narrative monologues. Exercises include those that develop language fundamentals (word forms, collocations, case endings, cognates, synonyms, etc.), checks on text comprehension, and exercises to develop coherent spoken and written language. In the language fundamentals exercises, emphasis is placed on the vocabulary work of commonly used verbs.
4. Supplementary Texts: Serve as a supplement to the main texts, focusing on developing the ability to understand the main idea of reading passages and independently consult dictionaries.
5. Listening: Primarily aims to improve listening skills while consolidating learned vocabulary and appropriately developing speech abilities.
6. Evaluation: Based on a comprehensive review of the learned language material, it assesses students' abilities in dialogue and monologue (both spoken and written) within the scope of this topic. The vocabulary and language material provided in the textbook, particularly in items 1–3, are the focus of the final exam. Classes with a higher starting level may appropriately increase the requirements for supplementary texts and listening materials. The new words in the model sentences, dialogues, and main texts of this book can be found in the comprehensive word list at the back of the book. Some new words in the supplementary texts can be independently resolved by consulting a dictionary.
II. Grammar
The grammar content of this volume primarily focuses on morphological items. These include the usage of various pronouns, the usage of verb tenses and aspects, the usage of the imperative and infinitive aspects, the formation and usage of adjectival verbs (predicative adjectives), adverbial verbs, and the usage of collective numerals, as well as the representation of large and fractional numbers. Syntactic items include relative clauses and attributive clauses, which are an extension of the corresponding items learned in the second volume. Direct and indirect speech are also included to enable students to master sentence transformation within the range of common simple and compound sentence structures, thereby improving their language skills. Students should preview the material independently before class, with class time primarily dedicated to practical exercises to convert the taught grammar knowledge into language skills and proficiency. Assignments should be set to complete a certain amount of written work after class.