Chapter 1. Course content

  1. On the telephone

    1. Conversation topics

      1. Doing

        1. listening

        2. watching

        3. playing, beginning to play

        4. throwing (ball)

        5. reading

        6. writing

        7. singing

        8. taking

        9. waiting

      2. Where do you live?

      3. Does he know how to play?

        1. soccer?

        2. volleyball?

        3. basketball?

        4. tennis?

        5. chess?

        6. cards?

      4. Do you understand?

        1. Russian?

        2. English?

      5. Mastery of additional vocabulary

    2. Grammar Explanations

      1. Алло used for telephone

        а and и as conjunctions

      2. The present tense of verbs

        1. stem

        2. endings

        3. infinitive

        4. accompaniment of pronoun

        5. three English equivalents of я играл... .

        6. three groups of first conjugation verbs

        7. presence of the vowel е, in most first conjugation forms.

        8. pattern of у or ю being used for both first person singular and third person plural

        9. three possible stress patterns:

          1. other than ending - throughout

          2. ending throughout

          3. ending for first person singular; stem stress for all other forms

    3. Audio-lingual techniques to be employed by student:

      1. vocabulary

        1. dialog completions

        2. free substitution antonym drills

        3. questions on basic dialog

        4. conversation stimulus

      2. structure drills

        1. person number substitution

        2. cued response

        3. patterned response

        4. progressive substitution

        5. free response

        6. free substitution

        7. double item substitution

        8. questions

        9. dialog variations

        10. conversation stimulus

      3. writing exercises

    4. Continued development of pronunciation, reading and writing skills already initiated

    5. Culture

      1. continue with audio-visual, text illustrations and independent research

      2. songs

        1. калинка

        2. полешко Поле

  2. A Trip to the Mountains ( 4 weeks )

    1. conversation topics

      1. Where is your ________ ? (my, his, her, their, our)

      2. Is this your ________ ? (my, his, etc.)

      3. Whose is this ________ ?

      4. Who has ________ ?

      5. the boys are waiting.

      6. The cookies are ready.

      7. mastery of additional vocabulary

    2. Grammatical explanations

      1. particle же

      2. здесь, тут

      3. деньги

      4. закуска и печенье

      5. gender of nouns

        1. masculine - consonant ending

        2. feminine а, я endings

        3. neuter о, е endings

      6. soft sign ь

      7. living beings

      8. masculine or feminine plural - ы or и ending

      9. Irregular plural ребята

      10. possessive adjectives

        1. agree in number with the thing possessed

        2. agree in gender with the thing possessed

      11. different possessive adjectives

        моймоямоёмои
        твойтвоятвоётвои
        чейчьячьёчьи
        нашнашанашенаши
        вашвашавашеваши

      12. Third person possessives

        1. agree with possessor in number

        2. agree with possessor in gender

    3. Audio-lingual drills used by student

      1. vocabulary

        1. questions

        2. contextual response

        3. completions

        4. patterned response

      2. structure

        1. patterned response

        2. noun to pronoun

        3. cued responded

        4. item substitution

        5. expansion

        6. мой to наш

        7. твой to ваш

        8. directed dialog

        9. progressive substitution

        10. directed dialog

        11. conversation stimulus

      3. writing drills

        1. free substitution

        2. sentence construction

    4. Continued development of pronunciation, reading and writing skills already initiated

    5. Culture

      1. continue with audio-visual, text illustration and independent research

      2. songs

        1. во кузнице

        2. у Попа была собака